“What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The younger ones… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: 'With… — Diogo Mainardi Copy Share Image
It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest organ, a fact that… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Even wondered about the difference? Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure. Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts… — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
“I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.” — Jackie Sarah Parry Copy Share Image
“Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Our destiny is aligned with our heart's innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“My father has the proper degrees and framed pictures on the walls, though they're mostly taped over with photos of children, family… — Alex McKeithen Copy Share Image
I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents.… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up” — Madeleine Black 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
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.” — Patricia Amis Copy Share Image
A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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