When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“Benar atau tidak, jujur atau tidak, memoir ialah sebuah prosa peribadi, karya bukan cereka yang mesti dibaca secara kritis untuk menentukan kebenarannya.” — Baharuddin Zainal Copy Share Image
I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“[On getting older]: You can witness young people embarrassing themselves and get a thrill--that it's not you. You can watch them throw… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued… — Louay M. Safi Copy Share Image
“The second day of the book tour I stopped an interviewer and said, “Aren’t you asking the wrong question?” The interviewer stared… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
“ The trouble was that I failed to record so much , I wrote, but how could I have believed that if… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good… — Eric Arrouze Copy Share Image
Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
“As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
“There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I’d totally do me." Bitter is the New Black:… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Playing out a denial of the past, she has overshadowed any positive memories, substituting them with her anger and perspective, leaving me… — Neal Winsomer Copy Share Image
“You wrote in a poem, “I love your body,” as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more… — David Plante Copy Share Image
“Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they… — John Conrad Copy Share Image
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is… — Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“[On getting older]: You can witness young people embarrassing themselves and get a thrill--that it's not you. You can watch them throw around their "always"es and their "nevers" and "I'm the kind of person who..." and delight in the fact that you're past that point in your life. Feeling invisible…” quote by Amy Poehler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08b/amy-poehler-1084_adventure_on-getting-older-you-can-witness-young-p_130766.jpg)
![“When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb4/paul-auster-351_america_when-the-publisher-here-in-america-wante_256145.jpg)
