#autobiography

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#autobiography #early #going #i #journal

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#between #books #boring #fact #fiction

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#because #famous #food #got #had

Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. ↗

— Justin Allison

#automotive #social-history #life

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#escape #frederick-weisel #teller #weisel #life

YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE ↗

— Sondra A. Torres

#autobiography #family #fetal-alcohol-syndrome #inspirational #family

Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind? You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried. ↗

— Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#equestrian #horses #kids #teens #change

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity. ↗

— Arnold Henry

#basketball #inspirational #motivational #nonfiction #inspirational

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. ↗

— Avi Steinberg

#reading #librarians