David Mamet Quotes

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.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

I like to read. Autobiographies.

I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

I'm very similar to Chandler in many ways, although Chandler is funnier than me, and Chandler absolutely hates his job whereas I absolutely love my job.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

I love working in London.

In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.

I will leave no memoirs.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

I have a great job at a great company.

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

I'm not from Hollywood, and I'm also not one of the people who wants to do a tell-all, and I hate tell-alls. I didn't want to tell all.