Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“ Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience,… — Rachel Reiland Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy lives not in offices, but in the small collisions of everyday life - at dinner tables, school gates, and moments of… — Yoon Jeong Kim Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth… — Jesse Cozean Copy Share Image
We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Learning that I could forgive my father, while realizing I did not have to let the aspects that I found unhealthy, disrespectful,… — Neal Winsomer Copy Share Image
“I’m chasing after that Holy Shit effect. If this sounds arrogant, that’s because it is. If you don’t believe in your own… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“I thought of my sweet little girl and her chubby cheeks, big brown eyes and long brown hair with bangs that constantly… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
“A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they… — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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