“I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write… — Michael Korda 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
“Chris didn’t need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.” — Michelle Tackabery Copy Share Image
“Your earliest thoughts, remnants of how you lived inside yourself as a small boy, You can remember only some of it, isolated… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“We are each warriors of our own times. When we step out of our protective shell, we each encounter forces much more… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
In the years since he came on the scene as the author of a best-selling memoir, Vance has transformed himself from a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
“It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.” — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love,… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
“Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland… — Robert Appelbaum Copy Share Image
“Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“How long you guys been renovating?” Craig asked Arianna. “About a month.” “How much longer?” Arianna sighed. “The contractor messed up the… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“I didn’t exactly raise my hand and shout “I want to work for the devil!” but I ended up doing his bidding… — Leslie Sorrell Copy Share Image
