“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.” — M.C. Halliday Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen” — Frederick L Coxen Copy Share Image
I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly,… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The idea of practicing love is deeply appealing to me, because built right in is an acceptance of imperfection. There is an… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I’m no expert, no natural-born talent, definitely no guru. As you’ll soon learn, only through a colossal experiment in trial and error… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.” — Thomas J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.” — Greg Garrett Copy Share Image
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. — Anonymous 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
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“She asks to see my diploma, holds it in her hands and smiles, reads it out loud before handing it back to… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“The lawyer asked us to sit down. He was holding a copy of the will in his hands. I sat nearest him.… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
