John Berger Quotes

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

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

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Half my life is an act of revision.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

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.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

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

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.