Quotes About Autobiographies

If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.

I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me.

In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.

Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity.

Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity. Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Why do panda bears bore you?" "Since they're born wearing such impressive makeup, they don't make any effort to be interesting. They neither master any stageworthy tricks nor write autobiographies.

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as the writer is a woman who was once a whore and is moderately wealthy in her old age.

There were more meetings here of the reunion committee and this kept him busy, especially the assembling of mock yearbooks made up of the classmates' autobiographies that Gloria had accumulated via e-mail. Bev did household chores

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.

I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.

At the same time, "movie autobiographies" written for the Blumer study suggest that woemn's relationship to the screen was less direct imitation than a negotiation between one's sense of self and the ideal female images.

I have chosen to write about women, because I am not one myself, and because I have always preferred to write about subjects which do not tempt me to be so arrogant as to believe that I can ever fully understand them, but above all because many women seem to me to be looking at life with fresh eyes, and their autobiographies, in various forms, are the most original part of contemporary literature

I watched a lot of drunk players, too, I learned from the autobiographies published after they had retired.