One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Your own setbacks aren’t what they first appear to be; rather than viewing them as failures, view them as learning opportunities that… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
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The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of… — Angela Doll Carlson Copy Share Image
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I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
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Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a… — Questlove Copy Share Image
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
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Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
![“The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my…” quote by Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5d/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_cutting_the-parts-in-which-i-elaborated-on-the-s_422916.jpg)
![“It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together…” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b7/eve-ensler-1402_body_it-the-memoir-in-the-body-of-the-world-w_1456030.jpg)
