Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

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 do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

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

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

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.

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.

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.

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

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

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.