James Patterson Quotes

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

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.

I told my whole life story in my book.

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

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

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

Anyone can write your own life story.

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

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

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.

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

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.