'Working Class Man' is my second memoir and is a continuation of my story from where 'Working Class Boy' left off. The… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
“I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy -… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It seems like there is no way to just write your story without becoming someone's poster child. You are not just your… — Lara Lillibridge Copy Share Image
“I feel alone here. In some ways, I feel abandoned here. This feels fitting, somehow, and, in recognizing the truth in that,… — Brittany Penner Copy Share Image
George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against… — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“I shut my ears, averted my eyes, turning instead to what I thought at the time was pain's antidote: silence. I was… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Susan Alexie died of tuberculosis on August 30, 1945. I don't know why the exact date of her death is not on… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I usually enjoy setting up a new kitchen, but this has become a joyless and highly charged task. My mother and I… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I carried with me into the West End Bar, the White Horse Tavern, a long list of things I would never do:… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It might surprise people to know that the person who convinced me to write the third memoir - 'The Hardcore Diaries' -… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
“From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I… — April Voytko Kempler Copy Share Image
She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary.… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are very personal, always, but this one felt like a memoir. I almost called it Hallucinated Memoir.… — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time,… — Deb Simpson Copy Share Image
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give,… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Lesson learned: If you’re already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel.… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
![“Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.” quote by Karen Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe2/karen-abbott-13658_chance_gypsy-rose-lee-was-a-masterful-storytell_259518.png)
![“The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as…” quote by Lidia Yuknavitch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c13/lidia-yuknavitch-3991_bits_the-best-memoirs-like-this-boy-s-life-or_936790.png)
