Harvey Pekar Quotes

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

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

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

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

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.