Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.” — Patricia Amis Copy Share Image
“After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.” — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
“It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
“No matter how self-aware you are, memoir wrenches at your insides precisely because it makes you battle with your very self –… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the… — Jason Peter Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“She asks to see my diploma, holds it in her hands and smiles, reads it out loud before handing it back to… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“Despite your delusions to the contrary, swingers, by and large, are a civilized lot. We come in all ages, shapes, sizes, nationalities,… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine… — Ashley Rhodes-Courter Copy Share Image
“First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
