Leslie Caron Quotes

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.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

I had lost faith in biography.

'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try.

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

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

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

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.

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

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Biography is the best history.

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

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

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

People are interested in people. They buy biographies; they don't buy studies of presidencies.