I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“In 2005, my mad half, HER was born... ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012.” — Karen Tyrrell Copy Share Image
“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.” — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
It's like, I don't ever want the imagery to become stale; I don't want the quality of the memoir material to ever… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel.… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far… — Howard Shulman Copy Share Image
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against… — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
“I feel alone here. In some ways, I feel abandoned here. This feels fitting, somehow, and, in recognizing the truth in that,… — Brittany Penner Copy Share Image
“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We are each warriors of our own times. When we step out of our protective shell, we each encounter forces much more… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about social drinking: In the end, it's the drinking that creates the scene, not the other way around. You… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If you are listening to the roar, you're going to miss the whisper.” — Tracy Pinkerton Copy Share Image
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out" Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out” — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?” — Slash Coleman Copy Share Image
The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.” — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.” — Carole Estrup Copy Share Image
“His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
“We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism” — Charmaine Smith Ladd Copy Share Image
“Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?” — Anna White Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“..."we didn't make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us.” — Janis Couvreux Copy Share Image
“I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.” — Anna White Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
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