So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.
When I'm dead, somebody can write my biography. I wrote a national hymn, an anthem, which I don't want to present to that country. But I have a deal with my wife - when I'm dead, she should offer it, because then I'm safe.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
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.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.