“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
“She had always thought the word 'pheromones' made it sound as though molecules were floating in the air, shaped like little fluted… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I find that the writing of a memoir has two functions. One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“In my mother's book, a vegetarian is somebody who is not concern with his or her diet and health. "Someone who prefer… — Austin Clarke Copy Share Image
“I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean…I had… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these… — Naomi Wolf 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
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less… — Janice Erlbaum 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
“Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give,… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time,… — Deb Simpson Copy Share Image
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily -… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
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