Donald Glover Quotes

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

A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

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

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

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

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

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.

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

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

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

But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as I've gotten older. I have a lot of choices about the story that I'm telling myself about my life. So where do I find meaning?

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

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.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?