Amanda Palmer Quotes

Every story you tell is your own story.

I write about my life.

Anyone can write your own life story.

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

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

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

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.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

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

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

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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

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

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.

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

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.