Craig Thompson Quotes

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

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

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

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

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

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.

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

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

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.

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.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

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

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

Anyone can write your own life story.

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

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.