Quotes About Autobiography

Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography entitled The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

La mia biblioteca è una sorta di autobiografia. Nel proliferare degli scaffali vi è un libro per ogni istante della mia vita, per ogni amicizia, per ogni delusione, per ogni cambiamento. Segnano i miei anni come le pietre bianche che indicano la strada di un pellegrino.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

When Benjamin Franklin began writing his autobiography, in 1771, he turned the story of his own escape—running away from his apprenticeship to his brother James—into a metaphor for the colonies' growing resentment of parliamentary rule.

I hate everyone, starting with myself. (Title of her autobiography.

they're contained in their bodies, in the biographical facts of their lives.

In Geryon's autobiography this page has a photograph of some red rabbit giggle tied with a white ribbon. He has titled it "Jealous of My Little Sensations.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it's because I have nothing to say.

Through these deliberately unconnected impressions I am the indifferent narrator of my autobiography without events, of my history without a life. These are my Confessions and if I say nothing in them it's because I have nothing to say.

Nestas impressões sem nexo, nem desejo de nexo, narro indiferentemente a minha autobiografia sem factos, a minha história sem vida. São as minhas Confissões, e, se nelas nada digo, é que nada tenho que dizer. Fernando Pessoa.

In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it's because I have nothing to say.

Envidio —pero no sé si envidio de veras— a aquéllos de quienes se puede escribir una biografía, o que pueden escribir su propia biografía. En estas expresiones sin continuidad ni deseo alguno de continuidad, narro con indiferencia mi autobiografía sin hechos, mi historia sin vida. Son mis Confesiones, y si en ellas nada digo, es que nada tengo que decir.

Andre Agassi is one of the world's most popular and admired figures. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.