"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book"
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It sounds like a humble brag, but it lands as something more revealing: a celebrity’s half-promise to turn a life into narrative, suspended forever in the “someday” pile. Sally Kirkland’s line is classic showbiz rhetoric - buoyant, casual, and just vague enough to keep the mystique intact. “Great stories” is doing all the work here. It implies proximity to glamour, scandal, and the kind of backstage chaos audiences assume comes with a long acting career, without giving away a single name or scene that could be challenged.
The second clause is the tell: “I will get around to writing a book.” Not “I’m writing,” not “I’m finishing,” but a future tense padded with procrastination. The subtext is less about discipline than about control. A book is power in Hollywood: the chance to pin down your version of events before the industry edits you out, or before time turns you into trivia. Yet promising a memoir without delivering it also preserves optionality. You keep the attention, hint at revelations, and avoid the messiness of receipts, lawsuits, and broken relationships.
Context matters because Kirkland’s career spans eras when actresses were often treated as consumable myths. The quote reads like a small act of self-authorship - a claim that her experiences are not just anecdotes for dinner parties, but material worth binding. The irony is that the delay is part of the performance: the unwritten book becomes its own kind of legend, a perpetual trailer for a story that may be better, safer, or simply more marketable as rumor.
The second clause is the tell: “I will get around to writing a book.” Not “I’m writing,” not “I’m finishing,” but a future tense padded with procrastination. The subtext is less about discipline than about control. A book is power in Hollywood: the chance to pin down your version of events before the industry edits you out, or before time turns you into trivia. Yet promising a memoir without delivering it also preserves optionality. You keep the attention, hint at revelations, and avoid the messiness of receipts, lawsuits, and broken relationships.
Context matters because Kirkland’s career spans eras when actresses were often treated as consumable myths. The quote reads like a small act of self-authorship - a claim that her experiences are not just anecdotes for dinner parties, but material worth binding. The irony is that the delay is part of the performance: the unwritten book becomes its own kind of legend, a perpetual trailer for a story that may be better, safer, or simply more marketable as rumor.
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