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title: "3 Memoir Autobiography Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Memoir Autobiography quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Memoir Autobiography sayings and thoughts."
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> [A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-hickam/a-memoir-is-not-an-autobiography-it-s-a-true-story-told-as-a-novel/)

[Homer Hickam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer-hickam/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/homer-hickam-10698_books_a-memoir-is-not-an-autobiography-it-s-a_963093.jpg)

> [The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-difference-between-memoir-and-autobiography-as-far-as-i-see-it-is/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/salman-rushdie-153_accounts_the-difference-between-memoir-and-autobi_1066035.jpg)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-think-that-today-s-books-in-which-every-quote-every-conversation-is/)

[Russell Freedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-freedman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/russell-freedman-22651_autobiography_i-think-that-today-s-books-in-which-ever_1783747.jpg)

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