William Shakespeare Quotes

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

I told my whole life story in my book.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Biography is the best history.

The tattoos are about my grandmother dying, and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football, too.

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

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.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

There is a history in all men's lives.