Brownie McGhee Quotes

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

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

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

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

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

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

I write about my life.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

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

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Anyone can write your own life story.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.