Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

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

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.

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

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

You are the effect of your story, that's all.