“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.” — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.” — Jackie Sarah Parry Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.” — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons.” — Benay Nordby Copy Share Image
“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“I wrote this memoir to show I can help others do what I had the courage to do for myself; write a… — Edie Little 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
“At its best, art can be nothing more than a means of forgetting the human disaster for a while.’ I am still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
“We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth… — Jesse Cozean Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Love was a verb with a certain amount of energy attached to it - a daily quota - and you had to… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: 'With… — Diogo Mainardi 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
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