Quotes of: Autobiographies Keyword

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

Junot Diaz

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Boris Becker

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

V. S. Naipaul

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

[On Chopin's :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled...

Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography

En los hombres superficiales, el pecesillo de los pensamientos povoca mucho ruido; en las mentes oceànicas, las ballenas de la inspiraiòn apenas si dejan estela Escrituras hindùes.

Autobiography of a Yogi

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.

Greg Lake

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Autobiography of Red

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

An Autobiography

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse, A Spiritual Autobiography

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?

Miles: The Autobiography

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

If my clone writes my biography, is it really an autobiography?

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

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.

Harold Acton

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Kajol

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Lisel Mueller