Charles Babbage Quotes

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

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

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

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

I will surely pen my autobiography.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

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.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.

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

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I write about my life.

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

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.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.