Amanda Knox Quotes

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

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

I told my whole life story in my book.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

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

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

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.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Some walks you have to take alone.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

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

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.

I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.