#autobiography

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. ↗

— June Foray

#autobiography #i #introduction #most #new

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant! ↗

— Pat Morita

#away #been #detail #i #just

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#books #continue #i #like #read

The features of character are carved out of adversity. ↗

— Rick Barnett

#biography #fiction #inspirational #memoir #romance

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life-and-living #life-lessons #writing-life #life

Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification. ↗

— Frank W. Abagnale

#book-to-movie #theft #movies

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#just #life #music #my life