Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.” — Karen Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.” — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
“Learning that I could forgive my father, while realizing I did not have to let the aspects that I found unhealthy, disrespectful,… — Neal Winsomer Copy Share Image
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 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
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
