“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
“You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale 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
“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. Were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“I think of the privilege it is to be able to speak life over these hurting people and believe in new life… — Katie Davis Majors Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?” — Slash Coleman Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
“Pivoting does not mean changing your goal but rather changing your strategy to realize that goal.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New… — Katie Hafner 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
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies -… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“See, far above arrogance and selfishness on the rankings of undesirable Lifestyle traits, topping the lengthy list of carnal sins, occupying its… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
