Condoleezza Rice Quotes

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

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.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

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

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

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.

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite interesting how frequently people want to write their own story. Sometimes it is straight history - this is how we came about, how our town was created, a lot of that kind of effort, as soon as literacy came. The first thing you wanted to do was to put something down about who you are or how you are related to you neighbors. Then the next stage would be the stories, the cultural part of the story: this is the kind of world our ancestors made or aspired to.

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

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

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.

When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.

I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.