Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“War reporter Lawrence Sheets’s edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two… — Hugh Pope Copy Share Image
“I thought of my sweet little girl and her chubby cheeks, big brown eyes and long brown hair with bangs that constantly… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly,… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
“A writer must develop a representative voice. A writing voice is reflective of the sum total of his or her cognitive, physical,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“As the lights fade to a distant glow, I look back toward the city and imagine, somewhere in all of those lives,… — Noriko Nakada Copy Share Image
“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“I began writing my nonfiction memoir to explain why women, "don't just leave." My exciting, narrative-driven memoir aspires to to save others… — Cassi Janzek Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it's something else altogether to recognize… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
“In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and… — Peggy A. Edelheit Copy Share Image
“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
“Not to put too fine a point on it, if you want the dream, if you want to sculpt the magic inside… — Annaliese Morgan Copy Share Image
“In 1969, both John and I began job hunting. I had finished my second master’s degree and started sending out resumes. I… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God that you never experience what some of the… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at… — Othniel Charles Marsh Copy Share Image
“A favorite pastime of soldiers on long mounted patrols was testing each other with impossible hypotheticals. They were an endearing yet vulgar… — Mike MacLeod Copy Share Image
“I’m chasing after that Holy Shit effect. If this sounds arrogant, that’s because it is. If you don’t believe in your own… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Once more, I was left alone. My way of dealing with emotional distress was to immediately engage my heart and intellect in… — Jacqueline Tusi Copy Share Image
Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
![“I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.” quote by Harry Shearer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1aa/harry-shearer-7595_august_i-happened-upon-a-memoir-by-a-midlevel-w_2308171.jpg)
