I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to…

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

— Mitch Albom

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

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

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

In order for your life to be great, you must first learn to appreciate it!

— Anonymous

Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and…

— Alfred Brendel

You get what you order in life.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and…

— Forest Whitaker

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”

— Joseph Campbell