Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Judge me if you must, but keep in mind how very little pleasure I could have possibly derived from a one-thrust sex… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice.… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“It seems like there is no way to just write your story without becoming someone's poster child. You are not just your… — Lara Lillibridge Copy Share Image
Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were… — Karen Abbott 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
“I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I can't say for sure if I'm better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“She likes to write messages on balloons and send them to the sky. She takes out a black Magic Marker and she… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“Right’ was not how I would describe the AFL’s decision to play our final against Geelong at Skilled Stadium. It had always… — Matthew Pavlich Copy Share Image
“Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go.… — Susan J. Tweit Copy Share Image
The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy -… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are very personal, always, but this one felt like a memoir. I almost called it Hallucinated Memoir.… — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary.… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I… — April Voytko Kempler Copy Share Image
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
It might surprise people to know that the person who convinced me to write the third memoir - 'The Hardcore Diaries' -… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“I feel alone here. In some ways, I feel abandoned here. This feels fitting, somehow, and, in recognizing the truth in that,… — Brittany Penner Copy Share Image
George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against… — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel.… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Lesson learned: If you’re already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
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