Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

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.

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

Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

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

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

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

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

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 think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

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.

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.