Autobiographies Quotes
On reading real lives instead of invented ones.
One quote here stands out for starting early — reading all three of Frederick Douglass's autobiographies by age 12. Others explain the appeal more broadly, noting real lives touch readers more personally than film. More in the About quotes.
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.
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I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.
As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.
If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.
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I feel autobiographies should be written when you're retiring and there's so much to talk about as you've been working for so many years then. It becomes more interesting and there's more material to go in the autobiography.
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of...
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories...
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One reader admits to choosing autobiographies simply because there's already too much fiction in daily life. For related reading habits, see the Any quotes.
