“I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.” — Patti Larsen Copy Share Image
“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
“But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.” — Karen Wheeler Copy Share Image
“My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
“At its best, art can be nothing more than a means of forgetting the human disaster for a while.’ I am still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
“What you don’t know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in… — William Guarnere Copy Share Image
“My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: 'With… — Diogo Mainardi Copy Share Image
“Love was a verb with a certain amount of energy attached to it - a daily quota - and you had to… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Normally, it takes people about 60 to 90 minutes to reach REM sleep, so they wouldn’t enter this stage during a 20… — Julie Flygare Copy Share Image
There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you’re trying to be sneaky.” — Suzie Ivy Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.” — Dorothy Gallagher Copy Share Image
“A lot of men tend to want "models" I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to… — Trisha Ventker Copy Share Image
“How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale Copy Share Image
“...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.” — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
“Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.” — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery." SHOW YOUR TONGUE” — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.” — Fran Elizabeth Grubb Copy Share Image
