Spalding Gray Quotes

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

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

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

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

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.

I write about my life.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.