Michael Palin Quotes

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

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

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.

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

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.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

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.

I told my whole life story in my book.

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

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

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

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.

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

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

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

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