“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“There’s irony in a beautiful curl slowly turning into a tangled mess, beyond resurrection, in a matter of minutes.” — Shelley Taylor Copy Share Image
“Oscar Wilde said: 'Biography lends to death a new terror.' Well, memoir adds that same promise to parenting.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.” — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.” — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
“...I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look… — Lourdes Portillo Copy Share Image
“We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they… — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
“Worry and anxiety can drive you into a state of paralysis. I, for one, have experienced such, and I have figured it's… — James B. Agape Copy Share Image
Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“I’m chasing after that Holy Shit effect. If this sounds arrogant, that’s because it is. If you don’t believe in your own… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Once more, I was left alone. My way of dealing with emotional distress was to immediately engage my heart and intellect in… — Jacqueline Tusi Copy Share Image
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at… — Othniel Charles Marsh Copy Share Image
“A favorite pastime of soldiers on long mounted patrols was testing each other with impossible hypotheticals. They were an endearing yet vulgar… — Mike MacLeod Copy Share Image
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write… — Baby Halder Copy Share Image
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
“Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me” — Don Darkes Copy Share Image
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.” — Greg Garrett Copy Share Image
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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