“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
I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain.… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you… — Anna White Copy Share Image
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running… — Carl G. Jung Copy Share Image
If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is… — Becky Johnson Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I can't go to America. I don't want to go to any foreign land where I don't speak the language or know… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I like it here. I like the girls, and I like the DJ's, and the cocktail waitresses, and the loud rock'n'roll (though… — Craig Machen Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a… — Questlove Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“Tatiana is a ridiculously curvy thing of dreams, with smooth succulent thighs, long strawberry blond cascading beneath a teal bandana, and a… — Brett Tate Copy Share Image
I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big… — Jamie Lee Curtis 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
“Looking back on the eruption, asking God why I had somehow been chosen to be afflicted with this damn disease, the fairer… — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“To have the versatility to adapt, accompanied by courage, spiritual strength, perseverance and dedication, leads to a successful life. To put your… — Shailah Edmonds Copy Share Image
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction,… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
![“I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/591/al-pacino-1656_book_i-didn-t-want-the-book-of-memoirs-out-na_1102797.jpg)
![“[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of Saul Alinsky, the Chicagoan and modern founder of community organizing, or Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist and agitator from Chicago who mentored…” quote by Paul Kengor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b0a/paul-kengor-14302_acknowledge_barack-obama-isn-t-pointing-to-anyone-an_1938904.jpg)
![“If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.” quote by Rudy Giuliani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c45/rudy-giuliani-958_cold_if-you-read-history-right-if-you-read-mi_1131215.jpg)
![“[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell.” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/087/hal-holbrook-17109_bigs_mark-twain-was-a-publisher-he-published_1197578.jpg)
