A biography is when somebody writes about somebodies life. An autobiography is when somebody writes about their own life.
There is good and bad to both of these. They both offer an opinion, but from a different point of view...that is good. They both can be laden with propoganda...that is bad.
When somebody writes a biography they can choose to leave out the subjects true feelings. When somebody writes an auto-biography, they can choose to inject perspectives that they didn't see with their own eyes.
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As I mentioned to you last night, I've kept a journal for years. Since I was 14. I write in it not to tell the book what I did that day, but to hash out my thoughts and feelings. Over the years the books have accumulated. I have a full shelf full of thoughts and feelings. I think it may well be the single most boring book shelf in the country, but maybe not.
One thing I've noticed over the years, and the thirty some odd books that are filled with my writing, is that I've become more comfortable communicating with the written word than the spoken. It is almost a crutch. Perhaps it is a crutch. I go to the books to think and communicate. They don't argue back. They also don't offer another's perspective. That's not good.
The good part about writing is that it slows down and organizes your thoughts, though. And when you get to the end of a book you can go back and reread it and see patterns and mistakes you've made that you weren't aware of while you were going through them.
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