“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I couldn't tear my eyes away from the blood. As odd as it sounds, I felt irritated. I'd just cleaned that glass… — Rose Wynters Copy Share Image
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Why should I be frightened of dying? I did not know what death truly was; no one did. Who had made dying… — Charles Novacek Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact,… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“My father has the proper degrees and framed pictures on the walls, though they're mostly taped over with photos of children, family… — Alex McKeithen Copy Share Image
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.” — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.” — Mickey Leigh Copy Share Image
I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.” — Karen Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Having uncompromising belief also means safeguarding your own spirit, defining who and what you want in your life.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.” — Lizelle Du_Plessis Copy Share Image
“I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ” — Anne Schroeder Copy Share Image
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