Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium

Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'

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

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

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

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.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

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.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

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.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

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

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.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

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.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

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 never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

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.