When I published my first book, a memoir, the experience taught me that writing something of any significant length was an endurance… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“While in Aspen, I was on a panel one evening with Andre Dubus III, who spoke of what happens when a memoir… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland… — Robert Appelbaum Copy Share Image
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love,… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
“Suddenly life was good, even glamorous. We were poor but didn’t know it, or maybe we did know, but we didn’t care,… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
I couldn't have articulated this process at the time; I just sort of did it instinctually. But now when I talk about… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Each day offers you an opportunity to overcome obstacles and fears in your life. Those victories, however small they appear, are significant… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Stately and commanding, the house I found on Sacramento Street, in Lower Pacific Heights, was an architectural jewel; tour buses drove down… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“For the thousands of nameless children who feel as forgotten as I did—this memoir is my gift to you. It’s as much… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Even wondered about the difference? Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure. Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts… — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Because when you’re a 23-year old party girl who has to pee you don’t really think about the possibility that your nerdy… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
“He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“I have this beast. He comes and goes at will. Silence. He's very powerful. Silence. He has control over me. Silence. I… — Julie Mannix von Zerneck Copy Share Image
