I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls.… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
I was at home with my family and have a house full of puppies, and my cousin mentioned that with all the… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes, I believe I am ready to die… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role… — Jonna Ivin Copy Share Image
“I knew it was cold, but singing familiar Christmas songs and the fellowship warmed me through and through—until we stopped in front… — Larada Horner-Miller Copy Share Image
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
“Not to put too fine a point on it, if you want the dream, if you want to sculpt the magic inside… — Annaliese Morgan Copy Share Image
“In 1969, both John and I began job hunting. I had finished my second master’s degree and started sending out resumes. I… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God that you never experience what some of the… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Where are you from? New York?" "Weird you picked up on that," she said, "I've been gone from there for so long."… — Cathie Beck Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“During these three months I have gone through much; I mean, I have gone through much in myself; and now there are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
“I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into… — Jolina Petersheim Copy Share Image
“this is the story of my life so far. I get that it’s kind of odd for someone my age to be… — Joey Graceffa Copy Share Image
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“Your own setbacks aren’t what they first appear to be; rather than viewing them as failures, view them as learning opportunities that… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain.… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
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