Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

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

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny.

I write about true-life type things.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

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

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

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

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

Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

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

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

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.

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

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.