Lucian Freud Quotes

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

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

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

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

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

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

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

I write about my life.

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

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

Anyone can write your own life story.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

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

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.

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

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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

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

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

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

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.