“Sometimes I feel she hasn't left...especially when I wear the photo charm necklace with her picture in it. I can't tell you… — Pamela Palmer Mutino 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
“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
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
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
“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
“[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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“[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
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
In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact,… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Why should I be frightened of dying? I did not know what death truly was; no one did. Who had made dying… — Charles Novacek Copy Share Image
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“My father has the proper degrees and framed pictures on the walls, though they're mostly taped over with photos of children, family… — Alex McKeithen Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“I dozed, jolting occasionally at the driver's loud pronouncement of upcoming stops. At this early hour the bus hummed along quietly with… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
“What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The younger ones… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“This book tells my story. I’m writing it in Ireland, in a house on a hillside. The house sits low in the… — Felicity Hayes-McCoy Copy Share Image
“Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women like me through crowds of tourists,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine… — Ashley Rhodes-Courter Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
“First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“I've been a storyteller since I was six years old when my mother had her first series of electroshock therapy treatments. I… — Margaret Terry Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir,… — Sonia Sotomayor 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)
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