Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha'… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel.… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far… — Howard Shulman Copy Share Image
“The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of… — Angela Doll Carlson Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes, I believe I am ready to die… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Despite your delusions to the contrary, swingers, by and large, are a civilized lot. We come in all ages, shapes, sizes, nationalities,… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“I like it here. I like the girls, and I like the DJ's, and the cocktail waitresses, and the loud rock'n'roll (though… — Craig Machen Copy Share Image
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often, a bar cursed because of a girl… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain.… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
“The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
