A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first. — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery." SHOW YOUR TONGUE” — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.” — Fran Elizabeth Grubb Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul’s evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
“God began rewriting the ending to my life's story, our worlds collided with His, and He provided us with the most beautiful… — shelley taylor Copy Share Image
“It sucks to be an orphan. Now what do we do? What is Plan B? For us, the answer was to find… — Ross Meador Copy Share Image
“He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an… — Maugham W. Somerset (William Somerset Copy Share Image
“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had… — Rebecca Allard Copy Share Image
“Within that quiet little girl with no apparent needs lived a person with a great imagination. In that shell I lived and… — A.R. Cecil Copy Share Image
My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Now, through an act as simple as walking across a stage and collecting an empty plastic folder representing a degree, our stock… — Rachel Shukert Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“We were not interested in making life better for some some people. We wanted everyone to thrive and accomplish their dreams in… — Richard J. Riordan Copy Share Image
We hear from sex workers who have through their own volition become media figures, or have despite their own wishes become media… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs;… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
