Susan Straight Quotes

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

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

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

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

Everything I write is about me.

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

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

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

I write a lot about myself.

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

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

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

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

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

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

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.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

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