“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“I’m no expert, no natural-born talent, definitely no guru. As you’ll soon learn, only through a colossal experiment in trial and error… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult.… — Jesmyn Ward 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
It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone.… — Kitty Dukakis Copy Share Image
“One thing I've noticed since I quit drinking is that a person usually has two or three sets of impulses scratching away… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Worry and anxiety can drive you into a state of paralysis. I, for one, have experienced such, and I have figured it's… — James B. Agape Copy Share Image
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,… — Nick Flynn 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
“All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and… — Anna White Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“The God I serve is able to save us both. To give us the winning lottery ticket so all our money problems… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Doing a geographic” is a term alcoholics often use for acting on the impulse to start over by moving to a new… — Katie Hafner 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
“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often, a bar cursed because of a girl… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench… — 1st Baron Greene Wilfred Greene Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“What’s glamorous is being a good father, a good husband, a good fucking dog owner. That’s what I care about today. That’s… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
“I’ve written for those who want to learn, truly learn, about a community with which they aren’t familiar. Or for those who… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember,… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every… — Carl G. Jung Copy Share Image
“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
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