Wilford Woodruff Quotes

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

Biography is the best history.

I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

'Talks on the Gita' is the story of my life, and it is also my message.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

My family had a lot to do with 'My Infamous Life.' They were the inspiration behind me starting to write. I had an interesting family life dating way back, and they did a lot in their lifetime.

I've been keeping tour journals since I was 17 years old.

I like the idea of having a living record as you go.

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.