Memoir Quotes · Page 8

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.

— Kate Madison

“Pivoting does not mean changing your goal but rather changing your strategy to realize that goal.”

— Steve Pemberton

“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”

— Arelis Calkins

“Whenever we take a stand, we invite others who are siting on the sidelines to join us.”

— Steve Pemberton

“Having uncompromising belief also means safeguarding your own spirit, defining who and what you want in your life.”

— Steve Pemberton

“There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

— Kate Madison

“Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.”

— Fern Schumer Chapman

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down…

— Al Pacino

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions…

— Lauren Slater

“and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written – Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and…

— Stephanie Perkins

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is,…

— Annette Bening

I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,…

— Koren Zailckas

“Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling.…

— Alice Pung

“Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of…

— Amy Tan

I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with…

— David Mitchell

“There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are…

— Anna White

“Sometimes I feel she hasn't left...especially when I wear the photo charm necklace with her picture in it. I can't tell you…

— Pamela Palmer Mutino

“Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track.…

— Bill Bryson

“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people…

— Ernest Hemingway

It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It…

— Eve Ensler

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so…

— Virginia Woolf

“...Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the…

— Eldonna Edwards

“I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ”

— Anne Schroeder

“A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.”

— Lizelle Du_Plessis

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

— Carol Tavris

“Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale…

— Kimberly Kinrade

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti

“Courage is not only about finding bravery for ourselves. It is also about helping others find theirs.”

— Steve Pemberton

“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. There were times when I worried. Worried a lot.”

— Ken Cruickshank

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

— Will Rogers

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

— Alexei Sayle

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

— Nick Hornby

“...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.”

— Julia Child

“She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A…

— Kimberly Kinrade

“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.”

— Tina Alexis Allen

“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up”

— Madeleine Black

“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that…

— Suenammi Richards