Memoir Quotes · Page 27

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me…

— David Sedaris

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

“Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.”

— Jason Najum

The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction…

— Melissa Febos

America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on…

— Malcolm X

“In my mother's book, a vegetarian is somebody who is not concern with his or her diet and health. "Someone who prefer…

— Austin Clarke

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

— Paul Auster

“The more faithful I was to Him, the more faithful He was to me.”

— Becky Graham

Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks…

— Janine Benyus

Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is…

— Debra Monroe

“When the sun grew too hot we went into the wood where waves of Bluebells dashed around the foot of the Oak…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

One of the reasons I wanted to write a memoir was because I'm tired of telling my story. [Laughs] So I can…

— Julian Edelman

“Vikings, it seems, make their own way.”

— Helen Russell

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

— Kate Zambreno

“Destiny is not always preordained. Life is about making choices. Our lives are the sum of all the choices we make, the…

— Judith Land

“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

— Will Rogers

To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and…

— Karl Pearson

“I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in…

— Cathryn Kemp

As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of…

— Paul Kengor

Much more than memoir; it's history.

— Russell Banks