Richard Hell Quotes

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

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

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

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I write about personal experiences.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

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.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

I write about my life.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

Anyone can write your own life story.

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

I will surely pen my autobiography.