Cilla Black Quotes

I told my whole life story in my book.

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

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

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

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

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.

'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.

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

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.

A film of my life would never happen!

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

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

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.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

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.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.