Box Brown Quotes

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

There are two types of stories: public and private.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

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.

I told my whole life story in my book.

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.