Account Quote by Peter Carey

“There would be people answering to names they did not deserve. It would hurt to say their names. I would head upstairs and crack…

— Ben Marcus

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

— Anthony Bourdain

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

— Jonathan Lethem

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing…

— Katherine Mansfield

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

— Henry David Thoreau

How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that,…

— John Ashbery

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

Hopefully the person I'm trying to create is just a funny, dour, evil side of myself that has no other way to express itself.…

— Samantha Bee

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half…

— Dawn French

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

— Craig Bellamy

There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person…

— Augusten Burroughs

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough…

— Poppy Z. Brite