It's like, I don't ever want the imagery to become stale; I don't want the quality of the memoir material to ever… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone.… — Kitty Dukakis 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
One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.” — Shilpa Raj Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.” — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a… — Anna White Copy Share Image
My first book was about grappling with my identity and transitioning medically and socially as a young person. At that point, it… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness… — Anna White Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“It sucks to be an orphan. Now what do we do? What is Plan B? For us, the answer was to find… — Ross Meador Copy Share Image
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
