“I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about social drinking: In the end, it's the drinking that creates the scene, not the other way around. You… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“We are each warriors of our own times. When we step out of our protective shell, we each encounter forces much more… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Even wondered about the difference? Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure. Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts… — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
“The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Although my understanding of exactly how much trouble I was in grew more specific over time, as a child I surely understood… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its… — Terry Wolverton Copy Share Image
“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his… — L.K. Campbell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The teacher pulled out a pile of papers. They were Bennie’s tests and homework assignments. Mrs. Lewis said, “Ma’am, here is the… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
