“Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.” — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off. — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first. — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Whenever we take a stand, we invite others who are siting on the sidelines to join us.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Pivoting does not mean changing your goal but rather changing your strategy to realize that goal.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.” — Arelis Calkins Copy Share Image
The last book I read to my mom was 'Barbara Bush: A Memoir' published by mom in 1994. It reflected on their… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Darkness fell, revealing a sparkling night sky so beautiful that we decided to sleep out under the stars. At gray dawn, Phyllis… — William Packer Copy Share Image
The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“As a survivor of sibling abuse, the toxic shame is not for the survivor to carry. You didn’t do anything wrong. You… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
“I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old.… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Family is an important part of a person's life. The family is the first start of life's motivations and the things with-in… — Patricia A.E. Hampton Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
“It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.” — Anna White Copy Share Image
“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up” — Madeleine Black Copy Share Image
“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.” — Thomas J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Writing, long term, is mentally risky but vital culturally and contributes to a non-boring life.” — Hazel Edwards Copy Share Image
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