There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. There were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.” — Lina Rehal Copy Share Image
“Courage is not only about finding bravery for ourselves. It is also about helping others find theirs.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters.… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their… — Saffron Mello Castro Copy Share Image
It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“My mother was everything to me…and then I got married…and my husband became everything to me. It struck me then… Regret was… — Cécile Rischmann Copy Share Image
“I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul’s evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
“God began rewriting the ending to my life's story, our worlds collided with His, and He provided us with the most beautiful… — shelley taylor Copy Share Image
“I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“She had always thought the word 'pheromones' made it sound as though molecules were floating in the air, shaped like little fluted… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I can't say for sure if I'm better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“Now, through an act as simple as walking across a stage and collecting an empty plastic folder representing a degree, our stock… — Rachel Shukert Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Right’ was not how I would describe the AFL’s decision to play our final against Geelong at Skilled Stadium. It had always… — Matthew Pavlich Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
“You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
“These days I feel empowered by the same disturbing stories that once broke my spirit.” — Arelis Calkins Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.” — Thomas M. Cirignano Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.” — M.C. Halliday Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. Were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
