Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger…

“It would be against God’s character to give us a promise that our children will be saved if we raise them in a certain…

— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're good and…

— Norbert Bisky

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to…

— Joe Lieberman

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

— Ruth Ann Minner

“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.”

— Sonali Deraniyagala

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