“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.” — Thomas J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
“Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.” — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off. — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“I'm just scared I won't run as fast as I did my freshman year,' I admitted, choking back tears. Coach Woj looked… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“I find that the writing of a memoir has two functions. One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“She had always thought the word 'pheromones' made it sound as though molecules were floating in the air, shaped like little fluted… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go.… — Susan J. Tweit Copy Share Image
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image