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

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had…

— David Sedaris

“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two…

— Ernesto Che Guevara

“Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through things that…

— Iain Reid

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're…

— Daniel Espinosa

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

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

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

— David Herbert Donald