When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse,"… — Savannah Grace Copy Share Image
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career -… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels,… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
“Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to ‘Truth’ but we, out of our own vested interests, wish… — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I… — Casanova Copy Share Image
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha'… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
“Once more, I was left alone. My way of dealing with emotional distress was to immediately engage my heart and intellect in… — Jacqueline Tusi Copy Share Image
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
“You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I lift the lid of the chest. Inside, the air is musty and stale, held hostage for years in its three-foot-by-four-foot tomb.… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a… — Jim Corbett Copy Share Image
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot. — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas 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
“Grant’s catatonic state didn’t last. Soon he was devoting four or five hours daily to his memoirs,” — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him. — Jaya Bachchan Copy Share Image
![“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms” (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).” quote by Casanova](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4dc/casanova-60999_books_they-his-readers-whom-he-asks-to-be-his_110086.jpg)
