I wrote this memoir to show I can help others do what I…

“You are not the darkness you endured. You are the light that refused to surrender.”

— John Mark Green

I Let Her Meet My Mama And Gave Her All Of Me She Had So Many Secrets They We're as Tall As Me..

— Aeezy

“I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things. But the treasure of it was in…

— Julio-Alexi Genao

“When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a…

— Scott Thompson

“I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what…

— Kerem Mermutlu

“It’s a funny thing, is life. It gives you things: Things that you treasure and love. Then without warning, it snatches them away; leaving…

— Rosie Chee

“After a short time I felt my truck began to move. The force of the water and the rising floodwaters lifted me and my…

— Steven C. Smith

“How'd you know that would help, Grandma? Used to have a regular who had attacks like that all the time. Poor guy. He was…

— Jennifer LeBlanc

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that…

— Ishmael Beah

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Borman much later admitted that he was, as Cernan wrote in his memoir, “sick as a dog* all the way to the moon.”

— Mary Roach

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

— Natalie Goldberg

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held…

— Jean Houston

I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to…

— Leigh Newman

Many small business owners want to pass their family legacy on to their kids and grandkids, but they are turned over to vulture funds…

— Stephen Moore