Jason Isbell Quotes

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.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

Everything I write is about me.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

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.

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.

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

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

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

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

I write a lot about myself.

I write about my life.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Anyone can write your own life story.

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

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

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

'Bronson' was like, 'I'll do a movie about my own life.' And it became like an experiment.