Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

I told my whole life story in my book.

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

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.

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

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.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

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.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

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

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.

The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.

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

For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6 to 15 years old, and it sort of cross-pollinates with other kids in my neighborhood. It fuses their experiences with what was going on in my life.

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

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

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.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

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

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.