Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I told my whole life story in my book.

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

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

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

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

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

I will surely pen my autobiography.

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

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

A film of my life would never happen!

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

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.

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

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

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.

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

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.

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

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