I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I…

The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on…

— Leigh Newman

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has…

— William Perry

Anfield is a unique place to play on European nights.

— Graeme Souness

Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you…

— Thomas Kinkade

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

— Carrie Fisher

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

— Dani Shapiro

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

— Susan Ford

“When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions…

— Maureen Murdock

What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I…

— Kevin Brockmeier

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 some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

— Harlan Coben

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

— Jesmyn Ward

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them,…

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— David Herbert Donald