“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God that you never experience what some of the… — Hendri Coetzee 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
“Having uncompromising belief also means safeguarding your own spirit, defining who and what you want in your life.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.” — Mary Karr 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
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“I had enough of a story churning in my head that combined all the elements of the day—the interview, the concert, the… — Kenny Weissberg Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest… — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While… — Margaret Leis Hanna Copy Share Image
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster 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
“Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.” — Jane Davenport Platko Copy Share Image
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“We do not use writing exclusively to attain perspective upon our self-referential human existence. We dedicate our essayistic existence to witnessing the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“Parents should keep their kids engaged in positive activities as much as possible.” — Malik Wade Copy Share Image
“Staring at my smoldering hot date, her husband stands tall for the first time in a decade, adjusting his toupee while flashing… — Brett Tate Copy Share Image
