“There was no question that Jorge 'Billy' Nayor liked to get high; he just didn't think of himself as a drug dealer… — Dinosaur in the Park Jorge Nayor Copy Share Image
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
“I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it… — John Mihaljevic Copy Share Image
I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“The next day I received a phone call from Mr. Pride which began, “So, I heard you won Ho of the Year.”… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“I opened the curtain and entered the confessional, a dark wooden booth built into the side wall of the church. As I… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“From the moment I was first pregnant, and those around me insisted that treats such as cold cuts and nail polish could… — Kim Bongiorno Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“One last characteristic of the memoir that is important to recognize is one which also applies to essays, and which Georg Lukacs… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha'… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they… — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look… — Lourdes Portillo Copy Share Image
“He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“...I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“During these three months I have gone through much; I mean, I have gone through much in myself; and now there are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
![“It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.” quote by Condoleezza Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e0/condoleezza-rice-807_fun_it-was-actually-fun-to-write-memoir-beca_270664.jpg)
![“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked his pipe, which also smelled wonderful, as how I thought wisdom must smell, when it curls about your head.” quote by Carolyn Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f4d/carolyn-weber-36075_memoir_my-father-was-handsome-and-tanned-and-sm_485479.jpg)
![“But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.” quote by Sarah Palin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/db3/sarah-palin-1441_barack_but-listening-to-him-barack-obama-speak_1860177.jpg)
