Frank McCourt Quotes

Everything I write is about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I write a lot about myself.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

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

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

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.'

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

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

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

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

I write about my life.

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

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