Richard Hell Quotes

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

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

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

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!

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

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

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

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

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.