“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
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.” — Dorothy Gallagher 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
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you,… — Russell Freedman 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
“She asks to see my diploma, holds it in her hands and smiles, reads it out loud before handing it back to… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“I've been a storyteller since I was six years old when my mother had her first series of electroshock therapy treatments. I… — Margaret Terry Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine… — Ashley Rhodes-Courter Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Writing, long term, is mentally risky but vital culturally and contributes to a non-boring life.” — Hazel Edwards Copy Share Image
“I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.” — Patti Larsen Copy Share Image
“I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.” — Thomas J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen 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
“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up” — Madeleine Black Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will… — Dave Pelzer 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 say, here, read it, this is everything that happened. There are a bunch of cool stories of the transition of me becoming a receiver from a quarterback in college to being a special teams guy…” quote by Julian Edelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c9d/julian-edelman-4947_college_one-of-the-reasons-i-wanted-to-write-a-m_1909082.jpg)
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