Anatoly Rybakov Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I told my whole life story in my book.

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

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.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

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

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.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

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

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

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 about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

A film about my life? But I am not dead.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.