John Corabi Quotes

'Bronson' was like, 'I'll do a movie about my own life.' And it became like an experiment.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

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

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

There isn't really a whole lot to know about me.

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?