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...

Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other’s nature and in...

Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces – forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch...

Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant… She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something’s said by a stranger I’ve been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, “Listen. I’m with you on...

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the...

It seemed I’d always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not...

[In his 1993 autobiography] To Be the Best, … What I have learned about myself is that I am an animal when it comes to achievement and wanting success. There is never enough success for...

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.

I was awarded ‘Most Aggressive Rider of the Day’, generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

If I can do it, anybody can do it. Willpower is strong! I believe that. You just have to have faith in yourself—and God—and make sure you know where your priorities stand.

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I’m fastened to a great ship on ahead. It’s going into port and can’t lose it’s way.

It was only after two years’ work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a...

Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations that happened fifteen, twenty, fifty years ago? But ‘Are you playing, Bob?’ is...

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening – all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn’t one big joke.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. The future will choose the pages it prefers. It’s...

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...

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn’t true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? …Was I to...

I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have...

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

I understand feminism to be a social savior because it liberates everyone without exclusion, whereas masculinism damns itself by measuring a man’s health by the amount of sexual gratification he receives.

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills – than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume

A politician’s autobiography is a book that’s nothing more than a collection of paper, like toilet paper, only it’s stacked instead of rolled.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

The best thing, … was that my subject was accessible, which wasn’t always true with the other people I worked with. Secondly, I didn’t have to split the money with him. He did it gratis,...

It was a terrible day. I can only console myself with the fact that if it hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have written a book. As a result I was asked to write my autobiography.

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography.

I didn’t find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.

It is a thrill to be publishing the autobiography of a truly iconic figure whose life story will be of interest to millions of people around the world.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn’t yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to...

The Grim Reaper isn’t grim at all; he’s a life-saver. He isn’t grim because he isn’t anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So...

I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .Osman Gulum

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,...

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

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

Let your autobiography contain these words; “I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently”. Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees.

But you can’t fault me on my footnotes. I’ve worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of...

I have found out the hard way that the path from victim to victory hinges on one word…Choose.

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life’s Roadways!This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar for a while.

But I had already fallen. Fallen into this deep, dark hole. I was trapped. Trapped in this nightmare.

Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite...

How is it possible to write one’s autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with...

A ball feels different off every player’s racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It’s like touching her, though we’re forty feet...