A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.” — Mickey Leigh Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images… — Maureen Murdock Copy Share Image
“Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
“Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Suddenly life was good, even glamorous. We were poor but didn’t know it, or maybe we did know, but we didn’t care,… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“It's the same with the wound in our hearts. We need to give them our attention so that they can heal. Otherwise… — James R. Doty Copy Share Image
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Whether or not you employ humor in dealing with difficult subjects, the tone of the writing is of the utmost importance. Personally,… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they… — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
