Charles Dickens Quotes

Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

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

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

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).

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

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.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

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

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

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.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.