“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.” — Shuly Xóchitl Cawood Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.” — Jane Davenport Platko Copy Share Image
“It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
“This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.” — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.” — Anna White Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies -… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“After giving it some thought, I've decided to name my monkey mind Ricky Bobby. I was thinking about Latin names like Javier,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Let us call the world to come together – every child, every woman and every man. Let us draw a bigger picture,… — Maha Al Fahim Copy Share Image
“When the sun grew too hot we went into the wood where waves of Bluebells dashed around the foot of the Oak… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest… — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
