Jack Dee Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

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.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

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

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

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

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