“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
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
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
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that… — Maugham Somerset William Copy Share Image
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
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“Sex is not a wizard, whatever magical-seeming properties it might possess in its better forms. If your friend says to you, "You're… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
“I love that there's no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day… — Anna White 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
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I think of the privilege it is to be able to speak life over these hurting people and believe in new life… — Katie Davis Majors Copy Share Image
“I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel… — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents.… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab… — Claire Sylvia Copy Share Image
