There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“There is a place for what my heart tells me about you, and there is no shame or guilt in it. God… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
“Learning that I could forgive my father, while realizing I did not have to let the aspects that I found unhealthy, disrespectful,… — Neal Winsomer Copy Share Image
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and… — Patricia Christian Punches Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy lives not in offices, but in the small collisions of everyday life - at dinner tables, school gates, and moments of… — Yoon Jeong Kim Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“No matter how self-aware you are, memoir wrenches at your insides precisely because it makes you battle with your very self –… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling.… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is,… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written – Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
In the years since he came on the scene as the author of a best-selling memoir, Vance has transformed himself from a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you,… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the… — Jason Peter Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this… — Joe Loya Copy Share Image
The last book I read to my mom was 'Barbara Bush: A Memoir' published by mom in 1994. It reflected on their… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
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