I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
“...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner 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
“..."we didn't make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us.” — Janis Couvreux Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I… — Cara Lopez Lee Copy Share Image
“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)” — Saloma Miller Furlong Copy Share Image
Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.” — Dorothy Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When I published my first book, a memoir, the experience taught me that writing something of any significant length was an endurance… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and… — Azelene Williams 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
I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan… — Doug "Ten" Rose Copy Share Image
