Elle King Quotes

Everything I write is about me.

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

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.

I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.

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

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

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

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

I don't find myself intriguing.

I could talk about myself for hours!

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'