This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It's like, I don't ever want the imagery to become stale; I don't want the quality of the memoir material to ever… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
“The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.” — Suzie Ivy Copy Share Image
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
“I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
“There is a place for what my heart tells me about you, and there is no shame or guilt in it. God… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,… — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
“The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that… — Brett Tate Copy Share Image
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.” — Various attributed sources Copy Share Image
“He left the hearing feeling liberated, lighter, and more transparent.” — George Critchlow Copy Share Image
“I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.” — James Weston Copy Share Image
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.” — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.” — Chris Thrall Copy Share Image
“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.” — Shuly Xóchitl Cawood Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.” — Jane Davenport Platko Copy Share Image
“And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
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