A Quote by John Cooper Clarke

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

John Cooper Clarke

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John Cooper Clarke
English - Poet
Born: January 25, 1949

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

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

Roald Dahl

I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.

Diane Lane

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

David Brooks

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Aldous Huxley

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Lisel Mueller

Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics." Do you know what a MacGuffin is? "'In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants,' Ace writes." So in the Maltese Falcon, for example, the hero wants the Maltese Falcon, but there's always somebody trying to stop the hero from getting what he wants.

Rush Limbaugh

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

Ricky Martin

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

Rob Van Dam

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

Alessandra Stanley

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Kathleen Winsor

I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.