We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far… — Howard Shulman Copy Share Image
[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“See, far above arrogance and selfishness on the rankings of undesirable Lifestyle traits, topping the lengthy list of carnal sins, occupying its… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast.… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
“Stars, on the other hand, were inexplicable. Not holes in the sky, not candles, not electric lights, not anything that resembled what… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Staring at my smoldering hot date, her husband stands tall for the first time in a decade, adjusting his toupee while flashing… — Brett Tate Copy Share Image
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“I love that there's no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that… — Maugham Somerset William Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“It sucks to be an orphan. Now what do we do? What is Plan B? For us, the answer was to find… — Ross Meador Copy Share Image
“He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an… — Maugham W. Somerset (William Somerset Copy Share Image
“Within that quiet little girl with no apparent needs lived a person with a great imagination. In that shell I lived and… — A.R. Cecil Copy Share Image
“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had… — Rebecca Allard Copy Share Image
My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab… — Claire Sylvia Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true… — Julie Flygare Copy Share Image
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
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