Jeff Beck Quotes

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

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

I will leave no memoirs.

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

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 won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

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

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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 haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

A film about my life? But I am not dead.

It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.

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.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.