Karen Kingsbury Quotes

I write about personal experiences.

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

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.

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

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Anyone can write your own life story.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

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

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

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

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

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.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

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

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

I write about my life.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.