In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and… — John Green 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
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“It seems like there is no way to just write your story without becoming someone's poster child. You are not just your… — Lara Lillibridge Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a… — Walter Kirn 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 rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and… — Heda Margolius Kovaly Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale Copy Share Image
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door,… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Had I glimpsed just a little of the suffering I would witness and the heartbreak I would endure, I would have fled… — Daniel Walker Copy Share Image
