Jane Hirshfield Quotes

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.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.

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

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

I told my whole life story in my book.

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

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

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.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

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

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with 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.

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

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.

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