My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow 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
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true… — Julie Flygare Copy Share Image
“He left the hearing feeling liberated, lighter, and more transparent.” — George Critchlow Copy Share Image
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“...We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried,… — Ghada Karmi 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
“From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I… — April Voytko Kempler Copy Share Image
[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped. — Clive James 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
“I carried with me into the West End Bar, the White Horse Tavern, a long list of things I would never do:… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he… — Anonymous 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
Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.” — Shuly Xóchitl Cawood Copy Share Image
“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel… — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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