I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each day has the potential of being your best day. You decide what each day will bring.” — Paige Rawl Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
“At its best, art can be nothing more than a means of forgetting the human disaster for a while.’ I am still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I wrote this memoir to show I can help others do what I had the courage to do for myself; write a… — Edie Little Copy Share Image
“Darkness fell, revealing a sparkling night sky so beautiful that we decided to sleep out under the stars. At gray dawn, Phyllis… — William Packer Copy Share Image
The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“As a survivor of sibling abuse, the toxic shame is not for the survivor to carry. You didn’t do anything wrong. You… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
“Normally, it takes people about 60 to 90 minutes to reach REM sleep, so they wouldn’t enter this stage during a 20… — Julie Flygare Copy Share Image
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Love was a verb with a certain amount of energy attached to it - a daily quota - and you had to… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: 'With… — Diogo Mainardi Copy Share Image
“If I can do it, anybody can do it. Willpower is strong! I believe that. You just have to have faith in… — Gavin MacLeod Copy Share Image
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“It's very kind of you to take us in," said the vicar, smiling. "We're so sorry if we've put you out at… — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil.… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig,… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We are paint streaked runners, deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
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