Nat Hentoff Quotes

I told my whole life story in my book.

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

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

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

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

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

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.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

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.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

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

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

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

I want to make a poem of my life.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

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I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?