Dave Barry Quotes

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

My life and my legs have been an open book.

An autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

'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.

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

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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.

I told my whole life story in my book.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

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

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.