“I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)” — Saloma Miller Furlong Copy Share Image
“Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty. A beautiful and powerful memoir.” — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“You do not arrive in a single morning. You arrive the way light arrives in a room — slowly, and then all… — Dodi M Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
“An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!” — Maggie Reese Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
“When someone we know is afraid of judgment, we can provide a safe haven for their hopes by telling them first and… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Oh dear heart, save yourself. will you not sing yourself to sleep humming wishes you thought you wouldn't make. will you not… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“She likes to write messages on balloons and send them to the sky. She takes out a black Magic Marker and she… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old.… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Family is an important part of a person's life. The family is the first start of life's motivations and the things with-in… — Patricia A.E. Hampton Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending. — Lisa Jakub Copy Share Image
“Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love!” — Diana Silva Copy Share Image
“When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen” — Frederick L Coxen Copy Share Image
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.” — Roger Klare Copy Share Image
“If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Parents should keep their kids engaged in positive activities as much as possible.” — Malik Wade Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“There comes a moment when survival is no longer enough. The soul begins demanding sovereignty.” — Michelle Raney Copy Share Image
As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
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