Asha Parekh Quotes

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.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

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.

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

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

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

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

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've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

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

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.

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

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

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

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.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

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.