Charlie Murphy Quotes

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

I don't write autobiographically.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

My books aren't autobiographical.

Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.

I write about personal experiences.

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

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

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.