Memoir Isn Quotes

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's…

— Lauren Graham

Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.…

— William Zinsser

I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read…

— Hilary Liftin

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

— Arthur Phillips

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller