Carly Fiorina Quotes

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

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

Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'

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

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

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

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

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 have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested in.

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

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

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

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

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.

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've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.'

I am not an autobiographical writer.

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

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.