I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“The first night in the hospital with a snuffling baby girl, I learned that my family was not the only thing that… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling.… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
“I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Wildlife was the only thing we've written together with Paul Dano. It's based on a book by this author Richard Ford, who… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism” — Charmaine Smith Ladd Copy Share Image
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Because when you’re a 23-year old party girl who has to pee you don’t really think about the possibility that your nerdy… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and… — Patricia Christian Punches Copy Share Image
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I opened the curtain and entered the confessional, a dark wooden booth built into the side wall of the church. As I… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like… — Peter Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
“Where are you from? New York?" "Weird you picked up on that," she said, "I've been gone from there for so long."… — Cathie Beck Copy Share Image
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters.… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
