“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“All writers want to a place their mark upon human consciousness by creating a physical record of their distinctive thoughts and an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door,… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“The lawyer asked us to sit down. He was holding a copy of the will in his hands. I sat nearest him.… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“...Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the… — Eldonna Edwards Copy Share Image
But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“...I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
“We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they… — Victoria Twead Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
I was at home with my family and have a house full of puppies, and my cousin mentioned that with all the… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look… — Lourdes Portillo Copy Share Image
I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha'… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The next day I received a phone call from Mr. Pride which began, “So, I heard you won Ho of the Year.”… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it… — John Mihaljevic Copy Share Image
“I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
![“It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.” quote by Chris Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/chris-matthews-1682_congress_it-was-fascinating-what-a-total-interest_325409.png)
![“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details from separate experiences weave together, so that the rememberer thinks of them as having happened together. The actual year or…” quote by John Daniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/john-daniel-33836_dementia_memory-is-a-system-of-near-infinite-comp_2876187.jpg)
![“But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.” quote by Sarah Palin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db3/sarah-palin-1441_barack_but-listening-to-him-barack-obama-speak_1860177.png)
![“It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.” quote by Condoleezza Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/condoleezza-rice-807_fun_it-was-actually-fun-to-write-memoir-beca_270664.jpg)
![“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked his pipe, which also smelled wonderful, as how I thought wisdom must smell, when it curls about your head.” quote by Carolyn Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4d/carolyn-weber-36075_memoir_my-father-was-handsome-and-tanned-and-sm_485479.jpg)
