#autobiography

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#autobiography #because #been #before #had

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#autobiography #other #people #telling #telling the truth

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#becomes #biography #conversation #detective #down

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#form #lying #most #probably #respectable

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do. ↗

— Tina Fey

#humor #humor

If you don't invite God as a summer guest, he will not come in the winter of your life" said Lahiri Mahasaya ↗

— Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

#life

The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze. ↗

— Dimitra Ekmektsis

#dimitra-ekmektsis #memoir #quotes-i-love #love

Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request. ‘Um, I’ll have a go. But I can’t do it if you’re all looking at me. Can I go inside the wardrobe and sing from there?’ The others looked at me strangely, possibly beginning to worry about the apparent absence of any stage personality in this girl they had just recruited, but to their credit they agreed, without killing themselves laughing, and so in I went. From inside my hidey-hole I sang David Bowie’s ‘Rebel Rebel’. I emerged to a very positive response, the others all declaring that I sounded like Siouxsie Sioux – I was trying very hard to – and while I was quite pleased with myself, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to do it in front of an audience. We could hardly take the wardrobe around with us. ↗

— Tracey Thorn

#music #tracey-thorn #music

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. So don't give up your dreams. ↗

— Barry Manilow

#barry-manilow #inspirational #dreams

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ↗

— Joan Collins

#ago #autobiography #book #every #first