Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

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

I write about my life.

Anyone can write your own life story.

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

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

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

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

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

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.