Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
“Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering… — Charlotte Smith Copy Share Image
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. There were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“The Lush hadn’t driven in almost a decade - ever since she got in an accident that shook her so badly she… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands… — Chuma Nwokolo Copy Share Image
“A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.” — Lizelle Du_Plessis Copy Share Image
“And Goneville? It is a name that kept coming up as I was writing this book, and each time its meaning shifted… — Nick Bollinger 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
“Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it's something else altogether to recognize… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about social drinking: In the end, it's the drinking that creates the scene, not the other way around. You… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul’s evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
