In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Whenever we take a stand, we invite others who are siting on the sidelines to join us.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.” — Arelis Calkins Copy Share Image
“Pivoting does not mean changing your goal but rather changing your strategy to realize that goal.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first. — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“All writers want to a place their mark upon human consciousness by creating a physical record of their distinctive thoughts and an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door,… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I’d totally do me." Bitter is the New Black:… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
“There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Playing out a denial of the past, she has overshadowed any positive memories, substituting them with her anger and perspective, leaving me… — Neal Winsomer Copy Share Image
“I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest organ, a fact that… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ” — Anne Schroeder Copy Share Image
“A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.” — Lizelle Du_Plessis Copy Share Image
Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off. — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.” — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
“There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Having uncompromising belief also means safeguarding your own spirit, defining who and what you want in your life.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
“My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.” — Thomas J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
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