“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece… — Stavro Nashi 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
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church… — Mark Leslie Copy Share Image
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able.… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Memoirs? No, we want a how-to book. For spies.” “A how-to book?! A book can’t teach someone how to be equal parts… — It Books Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“U međuvremenu, opet po savetu nekih ličnosti koje su dobro poznavale umetničku sredinu i “ambijent”, potražio sam Gijoma Apolinera. On je stanovao… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
“Mother took the big saw from me and walked over to the orange tree which stood at one end of the totally… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
“The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very best possible to secure their own liberty and independence,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it,… — Wendy K. Williamson Copy Share Image
“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Quickly she shredded the cabbage on the chopping block and tossed it along with the onion and tomatoes in a blue Pyrex… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
It's hard to get in the head of somebody. The closest we can get is through the words they've left behind, either… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you can start writing your memoirs.” — Mark Allen Smith Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“With regard to the gospels, biblical scholarship has mixed-up theology with history, thereby turning the eschatology of the epistles into memoirs.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.” — Tina Alexis Allen Copy Share Image
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“I feel like a massive wave of life just washed over me. While luck comes in many guises, winning the lottery pales… — Charles Dyson Copy Share Image
I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
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