Will Rogers Quotes

I like to read. Autobiographies.

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

I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

I will leave no memoirs.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

There is properly no history; only biography.

People are interested in people. They buy biographies; they don't buy studies of presidencies.

I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

I had a home in Las Vegas for about eight years, starting in 1978.

I think we need strength. I think we also need somebody that can be a cheerleader. He's been a great divider in this country. I think race relations now are as bad as they've ever been. I guess they have, statistically, the worst they've been in 18 years. I don't know what 18 years means, how do they determine that, but I can tell you they're bad and they haven't been this bad in a long time. And we have somebody that really was in a position to do just the opposite, but this tremendous divide in this country. I see it, everybody sees it.

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

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

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

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.