“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“...Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the… — Eldonna Edwards Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“The lawyer asked us to sit down. He was holding a copy of the will in his hands. I sat nearest him.… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
“There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel she hasn't left...especially when I wear the photo charm necklace with her picture in it. I can't tell you… — Pamela Palmer Mutino Copy Share Image
“Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of… — Angela Doll Carlson 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
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine… — Ashley Rhodes-Courter Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
“First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Despite your delusions to the contrary, swingers, by and large, are a civilized lot. We come in all ages, shapes, sizes, nationalities,… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She asks to see my diploma, holds it in her hands and smiles, reads it out loud before handing it back to… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“I've been a storyteller since I was six years old when my mother had her first series of electroshock therapy treatments. I… — Margaret Terry Copy Share Image
“The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most… — Jennifer S. Alderson 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
“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
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact,… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“Why should I be frightened of dying? I did not know what death truly was; no one did. Who had made dying… — Charles Novacek Copy Share Image
“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
“Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women like me through crowds of tourists,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that… — Lucas Mann 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 just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together…” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b7/eve-ensler-1402_body_it-the-memoir-in-the-body-of-the-world-w_1456030.jpg)
![“The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my…” quote by Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b5d/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_cutting_the-parts-in-which-i-elaborated-on-the-s_422916.jpg)
![“One of the reasons I wanted to write a memoir was because I'm tired of telling my story. [Laughs] So I can say, here, read it, this is everything that happened. There are a bunch of cool stories of the transition of me becoming a receiver from a quarterback in college to being a special teams guy…” quote by Julian Edelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c9d/julian-edelman-4947_college_one-of-the-reasons-i-wanted-to-write-a-m_1909082.jpg)
