Quotes About Autobiography

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

I was working on a book about health and wellness, and nobody was interested in that from me. Thankfully, my cowriters reached out and sold me on the idea of doing an autobiography.

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

I would be happy presenting our albums as part of a joint autobiography.

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

autobiography Memories of Buffalo Bill, written with Courtney Ryley Cooper, asserted that although long ago he had told her that he wanted to be buried on Cedar Mountain, "where the last rays of the

Mom — the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

After years of clandestine circulation, Frank Harris's erotic autobiography, My Life and Loves, came on the open market a few years ago. Harris, fin de

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.