“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Looking back on the eruption, asking God why I had somehow been chosen to be afflicted with this damn disease, the fairer… — Ken Cruickshank 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
“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ” — Anne Schroeder Copy Share Image
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
