Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of…

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too…

— Rachel Cusk

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at…

— Liza Campbell

One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what…

— Jesmyn Ward

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write…

— Harlan Ellison

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think,…

— Faith Adiele

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were…

— John Lurie

Writing your memoir is inherently narcissistic.

— Laura Jane Grace

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just…

— Gary Shteyngart

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms…

— Cornel West

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

— Lauren Graham

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

— Mitch Albom

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out…

— Bill Ayers

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced…

— Jeannette Walls