Jenni Rivera

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

American Musician

Homer Hickam

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.

American Author

Greg Lake

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.

British Musician

Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

American First Lady

John Bishop

Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.

British Comedian

Jeffrey Brown

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

American Cartoonist

Humphrey Carpenter

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

English Author

Mary J. Blige

My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

Sidney Poitier

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

American Actor

Daphne du Maurier

English Novelist

Autobiographies are written from the author's perspective, using 'I' or 'we'.

First Person

Authors often share personal successes and admit failures honestly for authenticity.

Honest Reflection

Autobiographies typically follow a timeline from early life to present.

Chronological Order

The writing process encourages self-discovery and personal growth.

Self-Exploration

It involves reflecting deeply on past events and their significance.

Reflective Practice

Effective autobiographies are well-structured and engaging narratives.

Structured Storytelling

 in the back of people's minds. They have a feeling that there's an interesting problem, but they don't quite have the tools yet to discover them. They spend all this time working on certain problems, but there's another thing lingering there that they're interested in, but can't quite solve. Darwin is a great example of this. Darwin himself, in his autobiography,

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 You've been hired to write an autobiography. It's a straightforward exercise. It's got a beginning, middle and end, and is grounded in the facts of your life. And by the way, there's a great tradition of autobiography in this country, led by people on the margins of society who write to assert their existence.

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 not that you were not even the first or the second or even the third woman to be arrested for doing that. You become an accidental activist, even in her own lifetime. So she wrote that autobiography to correct the record, because what she wanted to remind people of

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 through dedication and hard work. On the last page of Gandhi's autobiography, he wrote, "I must reduce myself to zero." At many points in his very full life, he was still seeking to return to a beginner's mindset, to zero. To unlearn.

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 In his autobiography, Ansel Adams said, if he was a kid today he would be described as a ADD child. Whatever it was, he didn't do well in school and his father took him out of school in the 8th grade

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 in which she saw her own dream of becoming a writer reflected. In her autobiography, Malala wrote, "I had become interested in journalism after seeing how my own words could make a difference

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 Are you bored? Or are you just excited? But there's deeper work that needs to happen. How did you get all these money beliefs to begin with? I call this your money autobiography,

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 1 six, 0 sevens, 0 eights, and 0 nines. The safe swings open, and inside you find Da Vinci’s long-lost autobiography.