Richard Hell Quotes

Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'

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

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

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

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

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

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

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

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

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.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

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

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

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.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.