Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.” — Karen Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.” — Patti Larsen Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is… — Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“After consciously enduring a twelve-inch knitting needle navigated into the unseen recesses of my pelvis and almost passing out at the sensation… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“...We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried,… — Ghada Karmi Copy Share Image
“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I’m no expert, no natural-born talent, definitely no guru. As you’ll soon learn, only through a colossal experiment in trial and error… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“Writing, long term, is mentally risky but vital culturally and contributes to a non-boring life.” — Hazel Edwards Copy Share Image
“I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.” — Gavin MacLeod Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.” — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either! — Peter Serafinowicz Copy Share Image
“Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.” — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.” — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.” — Fran Elizabeth Grubb Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery." SHOW YOUR TONGUE” — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale 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
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