If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is,… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
“There is a place for what my heart tells me about you, and there is no shame or guilt in it. God… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“She had always thought the word 'pheromones' made it sound as though molecules were floating in the air, shaped like little fluted… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.” — Karen Wheeler Copy Share Image
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.” — Josh Wagner Copy Share Image
“In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all… — Anna White Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
