“There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone.… — Kitty Dukakis Copy Share Image
“One thing I've noticed since I quit drinking is that a person usually has two or three sets of impulses scratching away… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Worry and anxiety can drive you into a state of paralysis. I, for one, have experienced such, and I have figured it's… — James B. Agape Copy Share Image
“The God I serve is able to save us both. To give us the winning lottery ticket so all our money problems… — Anna White Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Your earliest thoughts, remnants of how you lived inside yourself as a small boy, You can remember only some of it, isolated… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated.… — Lisa Fugard Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“We do not use writing exclusively to attain perspective upon our self-referential human existence. We dedicate our essayistic existence to witnessing the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I’m no expert, no natural-born talent, definitely no guru. As you’ll soon learn, only through a colossal experiment in trial and error… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest organ, a fact that… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Let us call the world to come together – every child, every woman and every man. Let us draw a bigger picture,… — Maha Al Fahim Copy Share Image
“After giving it some thought, I've decided to name my monkey mind Ricky Bobby. I was thinking about Latin names like Javier,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest… — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“When the sun grew too hot we went into the wood where waves of Bluebells dashed around the foot of the Oak… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies -… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
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