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"Oliver Sack's autobiography, 'On the Move,' had a profound impact on me."
"If there's one book that you should read in terms of becoming more disciplined, it's David Goggins' autobiography 'Can't Hurt Me'."
"Every book that I write is autobiographical in that every character that I create is a part of me, imagining myself in a world where these real, three-dimensional people live."
"It's an honest and frank life of one individual... I think it's a friendly book. It portrays me the way I really am, not totally perfectly, but in a better way than has been perhaps believed by people who read things at secondhand."
"It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of, namely the confession of its originator and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography."
"One of my favorite critics is Pauline Kael, and they asked her, would she ever write her autobiography? She goes, 'No, I've written my autobiography in every one of my reviews.'"
"Harry has a right to write his book. Harry is a citizen and Harry has rights."
"I'm giving you my life story, Monique. You're going to write a book about it. My name won't be on it because I'll be dead by then."
"The highest, as the lowest form of criticism, is a mode of autobiography."
"We live in an age where men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography."
"My story's out there. If you'd like to read it, the book is there. Find out about me on your own."
"And when I watched the movie, I said, 'I need to read this man's autobiography.'"
"So I bought his autobiography, and I read it from cover to cover."
"The most candid and caustic Royal Memoir ever written."
"Jonathan's book will be about the rise of his basketball career, his journey into faith, and his strength to stand alone in the face of immense pressure."
"Ava went on to do many things throughout her life... she even wrote an autobiography called 'Shadow of the Titanic: A Survivor Story.'"
"No, that's not just titled my autobiography."
"Love yourself. Maybe that's the title of your autobiography."
"I think Jeanette was so [__] brave for publishing this book."
"I think it’s important for people to read the entire story and not just take slivers of it. This is my life story and my true journey to get over obstacles to get where I am today."
"I think it may be the biggest thing that I do at some point of time in my career is to be able to really give the true story of my life."
"I am a best-selling author. I wrote a book called wasting Talent."
"How to live with the large penis. Yeah, it's my autobiography."
"She's 22, she wants to write an autobiography, right? Like who can actually stop you in this world? If you want to do it, do it!"
"I never thought they'd be telling my life story, in an animated version."
"This is all going to go in the book, in the story. This is what makes our autobiography amazing."
"The phrase became an autobiography of perseverance and the signature song for Ronald bford Scott better known by his stage name Bon Scott."
"I was raised by animals; my memoir is gonna be a Jungle Book."
"Well, that's a biography of myself."
"It’s so great to be able to read an autobiography and see the person’s own reflections."
"The main thing to remember in autobiography I've always thought is not to let any damn modesty creep in to spoil the story."
"I'm reading an autobiography now. It's called sprinting to the finish line. I'm trying to get as much done before it's over."
"All of a sudden, I could see this book just laid out. And just saw from the front pages being thumbed, and from birth, and kind of like all the highlights in my life."
"Meanwhile, his alter ego has written his memoir, 'Confessions of a Late-Night Talk-Show Host: The Autobiography of Larry Sanders.'"
"My life has had a few different eras... my childhood in Kentucky, my soap life, my poker and Phil life, and now my motherhood."
"The story of my life is not for the faint of heart."
"But what’s unusual about her semi-autobiographical style is that there are actually multiple versions of her self-proxy -- an array of Taylor-heroines."
"This book isn't a takedown, it's just Britney having a chance to tell her empowering story."
"The manuscript ends the album and it's one of the most experimental tracks there is no chorus to the track no hook it feels like spoken word done over an instrumental it feels like somewhat of a synopsis of her life so far as the manuscript."
"I already had written my book, American Badass. I thought this would be a good chapter to start the story with."
"Unlike de' Pasti and Pisanello, however, Alberti didn't confine his efforts at portraiture to visual media. He also wrote in the 1430s an autobiography, a precocious one, given that he was only a little more than 30 years old."
"He entertained all of Europe, safely dead, with his extraordinary autobiographical commentaries, in which he traced his wanderings."
"No fiction author, every book is, in some regard, an autobiography."
"What makes that fact even more interesting is that 'About Face' is not meant to be a leadership book."
"StoryWorth makes it fun and easy so anyone can write a book about their life."
"Wouldn't it have been cool if Neil Adams had taken it taken the time to write like a book about what it was like to be Neil Adams in the industry?"
"His seminal autobiography of a Yogi has been a bestseller in its category since publication in 1946."
Play on words: "I'm writing a book about all the things I should be doing in my life. It's an autobiography."
"The book is about my worldview it's not a normal autobiography it's just a whole big set of stories of what changed me along the way my own Evolution as an evolution biologist and futurist in service to humanity."
"Beautiful Boy, that's what I was gonna name my autobiography."
"My autobiography is called 'Judged by 12 carried by six.'"
"The story of a person's life written by that person."
"Here was an old man said I got to make a film about every year of my life and he was just really kind of because he's kind of a you know I guess ornery or type of guy."
"Basically, me bringing to life stories that I've mentioned in my book but more than that, it's a chronological journey through my eyes with my, I suppose, battle with mental health. PTSD, yep."
"TMZ printed an excerpt from his autobiography."
"Art should be autobiographical. It should be about your life and where you're at."
"For the first time ever, Sammy the Bull Gravano tells his story."
"I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat. I had my own room. I was never aware of the Great Depression. Lucky guy."
"Hey, I tried to tell y'all my life was a movie, I should have wrote a book on it."
"Your life is like a book, the title page is your name, the preface your introduction to the world, and the pages are a daily record of your efforts trials pleasures discouragements and achievements."
"If I ever write an autobiography, I will write that this was the happiest day of my life."
"Sticky Fingers, 'The Autobiography of Kirk Jones,' is another one that's always kind of swept under the rug."
"New book is called Taste My Life Through Food, and it is as delicious as you are."
"It's a deeply autobiographical movie in a way that I can't think of any other filmmaker having done."
"i just want you to know a little bit more about me and where i came from and how photography changed my life"
"All art is autobiographical because it's coming from the person who's making it."
"It's a bit visual autobiography if you want."
"You're too good, Regis, but in the book that I just wrote about how I got this way I said it's time to explain why I walked off."
"The Ocean at the End of the Lane is autobiographical to an extent."
"Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been, namely the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir."
"My brother gave me Mike Tyson's autobiography for Christmas last year... a lot of guy who just wanted to be in love, just wanted to just, you know, it was more simple than we thought it would be."
"This might be the most honest autobiography I've ever read."
"I'm writing a book at the moment, you know, my life story. I'm doing it right now."
"When I graduated from high school in 1961 I entered the cloistered Trappist monastery the Abbey Gethsemane and I lived there as a member of the community for nearly six years."
"Who should write a book about their life? Honestly, on all of us."
"This is a book that talks about not only the very personal experiences of the person but also the very larger social issues that contribute to the experiences that they had."
"The world came to know me as C.S. Lewis. Perhaps you read my books, 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' is the most famous. But there's one story that's not so well known. It's my story, and who better to tell it than me?"
"The road lies plain before me, let me write about my own life, my old story, my oneself."
"I definitely would say a book is one because I just took things that I've done in my life and turns into a book."
"He's talking about 'My Strange World,' that's kind of your autobiographical encyclopedia of your some of your experiences, some of the things that have happened too."
"I got a TV series that's coming out based upon my life, probably going to production towards the end of the summer."
"We also got a stage play that's going to be in 40 venues next year based upon my life, an actual musical stage play, believe it or not, musical."
"The book's called 'Pressure: A Memoir' by Eric Canori. It's available on Amazon."
"I knew that it was going to be based on the autobiography of Malcolm X written by Alex Haley, so I'd written that read the book in high school and I returned to the book and read it again."
"I just write my life. I don't count them but that's what they saying, you know what I mean?"
"He wrote a book about the history of world championship racing and his sort of inside story."
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
"The name of the book is 'Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon'."
"I wanted to go back and just see it through a different lens, and that's why I called the book 'By God's Grace'."
"The last book I read was Sir Alex Ferguson's book entitled 'Leading'."
"I am writing my Memoirs for my own edification and therefore setting down those things which interested me particularly at the time."
"Everything that I've wished for you to know about me is in this book."
"She put a funny spin on her book and on her very unfortunate situations."
"You can't get more answers from any other source like you can from an autobiography, one that's brutally honest."
"I am Malala... it was far more captivating and interesting than I thought it was going to be."
"After he won his Golden Globe for Glee, he was approached about doing an autobiography, but given that he was only 19 at the time, Chris didn't think this was a great idea."
"I just finished listening to David Goggins' 'Can't Hurt Me' on Audible, and the man is just incredible."
"Every day you are writing your autobiography."
"She dedicated her autobiography to Walter Mondale for his faith and to John Zaccaro for his strength."
"I'm telling the story - my life, it happened to me, and that's what it is."
"I always think of my life as an autobiography and what chapters are going to be cool."
"I was born absolutely at the right time; that's the story of me, great timing."
"I had this epiphany that now was maybe the time to write my story."
"She's written about her experiences in her autobiography 'A Stolen Life'."
"My book is called 'Bruised but Not Broken'."
"Tough love: my story of the things worth fighting for."
"It's the true story of what happened to me."
"I paint the way some people write their autobiography."
"No cunning plan is the title of the 2016 autobiography of a former Time Team presenter best known for playing Baldrick in Black Adder."
"I am a survivor of sexual abuse, and my story really begins in Mexico where I was born."
"I decided to kill off a few characters in the new book I'm writing. It would definitely spice up my autobiography."
"High Magick, a Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row."
"Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life."
"Harry's journey of being 'Spare', plus that difficult decision to change his Destiny and start a new life elsewhere, serve as significant parts of the book."
"Whenever an artist makes a work of art about another artist, there's always kind of a sense of like, is this in some way like an autobiography?"
"I'm a four-time international president for the Mongols motorcycle club, retired, was active 32 years, wrote a couple of books, and now I just live a peaceful life."
"Welcome back everybody, this is chapter three called loyalty of my book Gangster Redemption."
"I'm working on a novel. It is a story of my life and my sisters'."
"Julia Fox's autobiography 'Down the Drain' is, I think, the best book written in 2023."
"Should I still write an autobiography if it shares negative light on close loved ones?... You could write your story if you want to help somebody, you want to save somebody."
"The freedom is worth it. That's why I wrote this book. I wanted to be free for me, not anyone else."
"This is the most personal album ever; it's the story of my life."
"I read his autobiography; it was fantastic."
"I started working on myself and so from that point to 2016, that's everything in this book."
"Tomorrow night is the world premiere of Jiminy Jiminy, the story of yours truly."
"Blank Canvas is an autobiographical Josei manga by the author Akiko Higashimura."
"Confessions of an Ex-Scientologist Pothead by me. Oh my God, exciting!"
"It's a true story of my life, a true accounting of my life."
"He was pardoned and he had written his autobiography in jail."
"One audiobook to consider is 'I Hate Everyone... Starting with Me,' which is written, and read, of course, by Joan Rivers."
"I have told the story of my ordeal in a recently published book entitled 'With God in Russia'."
"Written from personal experiences, my book is called 'The Thin Book by a Formerly Fat Psychiatrist'."
"I'm writing a book on my past experiences which will be called Echoes of the Past."
"I've been writing my book, you know. It's about my journey, the impact, the emotions, everything I went through."
"It's about my whole story, my whole life story."
"I'm listening to 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama right now, and it is so freaking inspirational."
"I wanted to do an autobiography of myself so that I could share my experiences, my upbringings, my environment."
"Several aspects of Diary of a Wimpy Kid are based on Jeff's life."
"I was born in the year eighteen blanc to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow men."
"I have the new book out called 'Behind the Scenes: My Life in Rhinestones'."
"Her story highlights the complex and often dangerous dynamics that are associated with high-profile relationships."
"If you ever get a chance to write your autobiography, you should do it. In fact, do it. Just do it."
"In my new autobiography 'To the Stars', I'll talk about meeting a young, idealistic producer named Gene Roddenberry."
"I tore open my soul and said, 'Come on in, see the secret life of Brian Head Welch'."
"His writings were a fascinating tale of his life and it was apparent that he considered himself to be an English gentleman."
"I love pro wrestling. I mean, to give you an idea, I'm reading Goldust's autobiography."
"The book of my life documents the coming-of-age of the mystic."
"His autobiography is worth its weight in gold many times as he explains how you can introduce the highest level curriculum imaginable to ten eleven year old people."
"The story of my life, the best story ever told."
"My life is a story, Reasonable Doubt, one of the greatest albums, all-time classic, you only hearing that's my life, we lived that's my life."
"We wanted to nod to the fact that it's autobiographical, but not to say that it is a documentary."
"The plot of the book is based on my own experiences while in prison."
"A Promised Land, billed as a riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making."
"Every page is solid proof I'm living."
"It's good for my ego, keeps me in it. I don't want nobody to do my life story but me."
"The purpose of the memoir was to tell his life story, share the true story of the Crips, and warn young people about the dangers of gang life."
"I just came here to show y'all who I am, autobiography."
"I wrote this on floppy disks when I was a child, my autobiography."
"She just wrote a book called Recovering From Reality."
"I'm glad my mom died by Jeanette McCurdy... it's insane to read."
"When you see a movie, we know that's fiction, but with songs, we don't know because there's been this label of like it's autobiographical."
"This is not your regular album or mixtape; this is Namjoon's documentation of his youth."
"It's supposed to be like kind of the story of my life or just like things that have driven me in my life."
"He's also published two highly regarded memoirs, the latest of which is called 'A Matter of Principle,' which describes in fascinating detail both his legal problems and his time in prison."
"My time, your autobiography in 2018, so pre-pandemic, which seems ages ago now, doesn't it?"
"The best book that God has written ever is my life, my biography the way He wrote it. I love it."
"Casanova is best known for his romantic escapades and his colorful autobiography, 'Histoire de ma vie'."
"This unique collection consists of documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 autobiography, handwritten in Arabic."
"He became the first known slave to write an autobiography in Arabic in the US."
"This autobiography is the only known autobiography of a slave in Arabic in the United States."
"This is her autobiographical story about being a Muslim teenager growing up in 2002 after the 9/11 attacks, and the bigotry and xenophobia that she faced."
"The purpose of writing the book was to let people know about my life and to be as honest as possible."
"I hate reading autobiographies where it feels like they're rewriting history and not telling the truth."
"He's also got a brilliant book out called Misery Obscura."
"I'd be telling my own story, which is a good thing because nobody knows it as well as me."
"If an author could write my life story, I would honestly say Emily Henry."
"It's an autobiography about my life, how I got started making movies, and all the challenges I faced."
"I have always called my journey my long walk to freedom."
"If you've ever wondered what blue water cruising is really like then I suggest you read this book called One Girl One Dream by a young lady called Laura Dekker."
"And in his famous autobiography, very good read for these times that we're all at home, very entertaining."
"I am listening to 'Failure Is an Option' by H. Jon Benjamin."
"I wanted to tell my life story, you know, from a kid, and how I grew up not having anything but wanted to have everything."
"The name of the book is 'In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom'."
"I live this life, I own this life, I'm the only guy who really should be able to tell my own story and profit about it."
"It's going to be called 'Into Minds' and it's my experiences of my career as a forensic psychiatrist."
"Life on the Mississippi is an autobiographical account of the life of Mark Twain."
"...one thing is equally certain: the fact of my birth is not one atom less curious than the reality of these Memoirs."
"Hooked by Sutton Foster is really great too."
"If you read Jordan Henderson's autobiography, he really explains how this is the kind of game that he got."
"I always did want to write my autobiography."
"I've had a hell of a life, that's why I'm trying to write this book."
"My life is my story. How can someone tell my story without asking me?"
"All fiction is emotionally autobiographical."
"I'm going to write a book about our journey from leaving Trinidad to getting here."
"Are you ready to spice up your autobiography?"
"The book is on my life in wrestling, yes, with a little help from my friends."
"A revealing self-portrait and a fascinating look at how fiction grows from and transforms experience."
"I'm ready to start my new project, my life story."
"For the rest of your life, when people ask you the same dopey questions... it's all in the book."
"These are BTS's own words, what they've been through for the past 10 years."