Good Autobiography Quotes

#1. A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

Imre Kertesz

#2. Fix yourself something to drink," she said. "I don't have any Mr. Pepper."
"You mean Dr. Pepper?"
"For the love of God!" She exploded. "People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?

Elizabeth Chandler

#3. The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

#4. This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

Bob Kane

#5. Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

Ice Cube

#7. Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

Ovid

#8. Tell the Truth. Make it Special.

Life's a Beach. And then you Drown.

Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.

Justin Allison

#9. Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.

Al Worden

#10. My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.

Edmund Alexander Sims

#11. As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

Mike Gordon

#12. Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.

Jun Maeda

#13. Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.

Bryce Harper

#14. My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.

Carlos Beltran

#15. In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

Peter Diamandis

#16. But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

David Carradine

#17. You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.

Ray Nagin

#19. I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a good second-rate poet. I repeated it aloud in a Guardian interview in 1976, and some people thought I was a coy old thing.

John Pudney

#20. I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#21. I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.

Garry Shandling

#22. The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.

Steven Pinker

#23. Gazzy: "Just Ten?"
Angel: "No."
Gazzy: "Five?"
Angel: "No.

James Patterson

#24. You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

#25. Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

David Crockett