“Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.” — Gavin MacLeod Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either! — Peter Serafinowicz Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.” — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
“Oh dear heart, save yourself. will you not sing yourself to sleep humming wishes you thought you wouldn't make. will you not… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“When someone we know is afraid of judgment, we can provide a safe haven for their hopes by telling them first and… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil.… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig,… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans--the ability to make you feel valued just by being you--and it was something of… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth… — Jesse Cozean Copy Share Image
“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale Copy Share Image
“I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)” — Saloma Miller Furlong Copy Share Image
“Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty. A beautiful and powerful memoir.” — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“These days I feel empowered by the same disturbing stories that once broke my spirit.” — Arelis Calkins Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.” — Thomas M. Cirignano Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.” — M.C. Halliday Copy Share Image
When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. Were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.” — Roger Klare Copy Share Image
“If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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