Mayte Garcia Quotes

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

I will surely pen my autobiography.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

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

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

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish.

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

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

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

A film of my life would never happen!

I write in a rush of memory.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

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.