autobiography

Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

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

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics. Or masturbation. - Johnny Depp

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

Monotony is the only reward of the cautious

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing__scape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you__l find a compulsion to flee__ seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. _ Teller: A Novel

Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the name of fighting crime. Prison places cost the US taxpayer more than university places. The American belief that prisons are the best way to combat crime has led to an incarceration rate that is at least five times that of almost any industrialised nation. Overcrowding is endemic. Conditions are appalling, varying from windowless, sensory-deprived isolation to barren futile brutality.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

Wanting to leave communist Russia is all fine and well | Actually leaving the country is where you might run into a few setbacks. Obtaining a visa for a simple vacation outside the soviet block was a long and arduous process. To immigrate to a free society was about as easy as finding whiskey in a church.