Teri Garr Quotes

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

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

I write about personal experiences.

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.

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

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.

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

I've lived an interesting life.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

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

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.

'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.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

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.

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 autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

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

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

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've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.