In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss.

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

'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.

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

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

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

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.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

I will surely pen my autobiography.

At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later, with my friend Larry 'Smokey' Genta, I wrote my first book, which was my proudest accomplishment.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time.

Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.