I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried…

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a…

— Arthur Koestler

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

— David Herbert Donald

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

— Hope Jahren

“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir…

— Craig Briggs

“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his life, he’d…

— L.K. Campbell

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

— Natalie Merchant

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can…

— Rebecca O'Donnell

“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more…

— Susan Hamilton

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.”

— Jo Treggiari

I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard”

— Mala Naidoo

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno