Frank Serpico Quotes

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

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

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

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

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

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

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.

I told my whole life story in my book.

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.

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

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

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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

'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.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.