John Major Quotes

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

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

I will leave no memoirs.

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

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

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.

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

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.