“To have the versatility to adapt, accompanied by courage, spiritual strength, perseverance and dedication, leads to a successful life. To put your… — Shailah Edmonds Copy Share Image
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction,… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore 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
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
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running… — Carl G. Jung 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
“[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
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
But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but… — Sarah Palin 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
I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“The next day I received a phone call from Mr. Pride which began, “So, I heard you won Ho of the Year.”… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
“I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it… — John Mihaljevic Copy Share Image
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha'… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis 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
![“It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.” quote by Condoleezza Rice](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3e0/condoleezza-rice-807_fun_it-was-actually-fun-to-write-memoir-beca_270664.jpg)
![“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked his pipe, which also smelled wonderful, as how I thought wisdom must smell, when it curls about your head.” quote by Carolyn Weber](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f4d/carolyn-weber-36075_memoir_my-father-was-handsome-and-tanned-and-sm_485479.jpg)
![“But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.” quote by Sarah Palin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/db3/sarah-palin-1441_barack_but-listening-to-him-barack-obama-speak_1860177.png)
