Bjorn Ulvaeus Quotes

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

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

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

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 get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

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.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

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

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.

I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.

I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.