Sue Perkins Quotes

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

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

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

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

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.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

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

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

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.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish.

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

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

My family had a lot to do with 'My Infamous Life.' They were the inspiration behind me starting to write. I had an interesting family life dating way back, and they did a lot in their lifetime.

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

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

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

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

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