Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

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

I don't write about my life in my column.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

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

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

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.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.

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.

I write about my life.

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