“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time,… — Deb Simpson Copy Share Image
She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n'… — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.” — Roger Klare Copy Share Image
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.” — Tina Alexis Allen Copy Share Image
“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it,… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had… — Rebecca Allard Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
