The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“A person’s life is a bounded thing that must end. We will leave this earth with unfinished business. Regardless of the outcome… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up” — Madeleine Black Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“...Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the… — Eldonna Edwards Copy Share Image
“My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat… — Suzy Becker Copy Share Image
“Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know… — Doug Pedersen Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Although my understanding of exactly how much trouble I was in grew more specific over time, as a child I surely understood… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
“You wrote in a poem, “I love your body,” as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more… — David Plante Copy Share Image
I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
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