“...I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“As the lights fade to a distant glow, I look back toward the city and imagine, somewhere in all of those lives,… — Noriko Nakada Copy Share Image
“It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
“BARRY GIFFORD, Author of "Wild at Heart", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester: "Marisa Lankester's unique chronicle of high crimes and low… — Barry Gifford Copy Share Image
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
“These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.” — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“ The trouble was that I failed to record so much , I wrote, but how could I have believed that if… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Darkness fell, revealing a sparkling night sky so beautiful that we decided to sleep out under the stars. At gray dawn, Phyllis… — William Packer Copy Share Image
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Family is an important part of a person's life. The family is the first start of life's motivations and the things with-in… — Patricia A.E. Hampton Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I love that there's no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them. That… — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never… — James Frey Copy Share Image
George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against… — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily -… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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