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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Silence is golden! [Malcolm Subban] knows not to talk too much smack cause you don't want to give me that incentive right?
My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.
Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.
Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?
Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
Playing with Angus and Malcolm, that's a pretty tough gig, mate. That made me the maniac that I am today, no doubt.
If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'
When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.
I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
I think anybody who works with Malcolm, the first thing they go, 'Holy cow! I'm working with Theo!' because that was part of my childhood.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.
'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.
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.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
Ibn Said's autobiography is an extraordinary work, and his story is one that's absolutely crucial to tell.
