“Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me” — Don Darkes Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“...a memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph.” — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.” — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
The last book I read to my mom was 'Barbara Bush: A Memoir' published by mom in 1994. It reflected on their… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
“This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this… — Joe Loya Copy Share Image
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the… — Jason Peter Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact,… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“Why should I be frightened of dying? I did not know what death truly was; no one did. Who had made dying… — Charles Novacek Copy Share Image
“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wanted to write a memoir was because I'm tired of telling my story. [Laughs] So I can… — Julian Edelman Copy Share Image
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either! — Peter Serafinowicz Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.” — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.” — Gavin MacLeod Copy Share Image
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale Copy Share Image
“A lot of men tend to want "models" I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to… — Trisha Ventker Copy Share Image
“Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.” — Fran Elizabeth Grubb Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery." SHOW YOUR TONGUE” — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.” — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
“Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.” — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image