Russell Means Quotes

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

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

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

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

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Everything I write is about me.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

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

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

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.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

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

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.