#autobiography

"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought."

"After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography."

"Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education."

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

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