Cilla Black Quotes

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit inadvertently for me, in that I'm trying to follow people into points in their lives that demand that I investigate the future.

One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

One of the most powerful things we have is to tell our story.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I am trying to make a statement. But I don't want to do that.

I have never, ever read anything written about me.

My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.

I always felt, like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

The story of my life publicly has been told through 'Alternative Press.' Former employees, people who have worked there - my friend Ryan Downey, who wrote for 'AP' for a long time - I've been able to have really great articles written about me and talk openly about things in my life.

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

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

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to explain, I lived it.

I think if you are a talented person, your story makes you a bigger star rather than the art.