The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
“Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
“When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images… — Maureen Murdock Copy Share Image
Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans--the ability to make you feel valued just by being you--and it was something of… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“We had our family patterns and were quite comfortable in them, which made it even more shocking when, just after his eightieth… — Jesse Cozean Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
“What you don’t know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in… — William Guarnere Copy Share Image
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 volt sexual charisma… — Brett Tate Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“He was lonely. I could see that. He was working his butt off-and mine, too-in the hope that a million rupees might… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
“Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know… — Doug Pedersen Copy Share Image
“if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it would be that after… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“We human beings are at once delicate and intricate and temporal like the tulips in an April field and sturdy, resilient and… — Benay Nordby Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and… — Heda Margolius Kovaly Copy Share Image
“...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne,… — Cathleen McGuigan Copy Share Image
“I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the… — Suzie Ivy Copy Share Image
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“You know you're having a bad week when you call 911, the paramedics come to your house, and one of them notices… — Cherie Kephart Copy Share Image
“I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing… — Anna White Copy Share Image
My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a… — Lisa Jakub Copy Share Image
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
