Arthur Wing Pinero Quotes

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

There is properly no history; only biography.

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.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

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

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

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I will leave no memoirs.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Biography is the best history.

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

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