Linda Grant Quotes

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

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

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.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.

My autobiography was simply the 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.

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

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

I think I have had a remarkable and colorful life, so I decided to share it.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

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.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

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

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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 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.