“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.” — Karen Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
“There is a place for what my heart tells me about you, and there is no shame or guilt in it. God… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
“Learning that I could forgive my father, while realizing I did not have to let the aspects that I found unhealthy, disrespectful,… — Neal Winsomer Copy Share Image
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“Suddenly life was good, even glamorous. We were poor but didn’t know it, or maybe we did know, but we didn’t care,… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
