“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I… — Cara Lopez Lee Copy Share Image
“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.” — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real… — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.” — Josh Wagner Copy Share Image
“When someone we know is afraid of judgment, we can provide a safe haven for their hopes by telling them first and… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 volt sexual charisma… — Brett Tate Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner 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
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's… — Debra Monroe 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
“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
“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get… — Jan Marquart 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
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
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
“Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“Courage is not only about finding bravery for ourselves. It is also about helping others find theirs.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. There were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.” — Tina Alexis Allen Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
“I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.” — Anna White Copy Share Image
