Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.” — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
“And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It might surprise people to know that the person who convinced me to write the third memoir - 'The Hardcore Diaries' -… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I… — April Voytko Kempler Copy Share Image
Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary.… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“it's been a long time since i've thought about that night, that wonderful raucous night. I can still see the president s… — Clint Hill Copy Share Image
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“And Goneville? It is a name that kept coming up as I was writing this book, and each time its meaning shifted… — Nick Bollinger Copy Share Image
“Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.” — Jane Davenport Platko Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.” — Chris Thrall Copy Share Image
“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.” — Shuly Xóchitl Cawood Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“Chris didn’t need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.” — Michelle Tackabery Copy Share Image
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.” — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
“He left the hearing feeling liberated, lighter, and more transparent.” — George Critchlow Copy Share Image
“Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.” — Various attributed sources Copy Share Image
Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n'… — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
“I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.” — James Weston Copy Share Image
“The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
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