I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“One thing I've noticed since I quit drinking is that a person usually has two or three sets of impulses scratching away… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Benar atau tidak, jujur atau tidak, memoir ialah sebuah prosa peribadi, karya bukan cereka yang mesti dibaca secara kritis untuk menentukan kebenarannya.” — Baharuddin Zainal Copy Share Image
“I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the… — Suzie Ivy Copy Share Image
“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice.… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“It's very kind of you to take us in," said the vicar, smiling. "We're so sorry if we've put you out at… — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
“A favorite pastime of soldiers on long mounted patrols was testing each other with impossible hypotheticals. They were an endearing yet vulgar… — Mike MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Each day offers you an opportunity to overcome obstacles and fears in your life. Those victories, however small they appear, are significant… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine… — Ashley Rhodes-Courter Copy Share Image
“Each person in the group said something except for me. My silence became noticed. About halfway through the meeting I started to… — Daphne Scholinski Copy Share Image
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“He was lonely. I could see that. He was working his butt off-and mine, too-in the hope that a million rupees might… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
“While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good… — Eric Arrouze Copy Share Image
I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil.… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
