“If I wrote an autobiography, I'd have to sue the author for defamation...”
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”
“If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.”
“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”
“Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
“I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.”