Jermaine Fowler Quotes

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 hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

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

Everything I write is about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

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

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

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 can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

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.

I write a lot about myself.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

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

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

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

I write about personal experiences.

There isn't really a whole lot to know about me.

You can't supervise your own history.

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