Edward Brooke Quotes

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

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

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

Tony Blair is an extremely popular figure in North America. His memoir is refreshing, both for its candour and vivid portrayal of political life.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

The time frame is summer 1961, a year after the gold medal in the National Science Fair. I always saw my 'Coalwood' books as a trilogy. This book finishes the story of my life in Coalwood. I think it's the best of the three.

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

I think I have had a remarkable and colorful life, so I decided to share it.

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.