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
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
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
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
“If you are listening to the roar, you're going to miss the whisper.” — Tracy Pinkerton Copy Share Image
“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?” — Slash Coleman 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
I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go.… — Susan J. Tweit Copy Share Image
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.” — Josh Wagner Copy Share Image
“Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real… — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.” — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I… — Cara Lopez Lee Copy Share Image
“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up” — Madeleine Black Copy Share Image
“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.” — Tina Alexis Allen Copy Share Image
“She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.” — Dimitra Ekmektsis Copy Share Image
“...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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