People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
A lot of presidential memoirs they say are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad ones you did do well that's Memoirs.
I have more freedom when I write fiction but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message ' even if I am not even aware that there is one is conveyed better in this form.
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful often urgent and essentially life-affirming but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
Listen in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.
I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire so now that I am a vampire everyone's like 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human ' which is like the adult version of it.