“..."we didn't make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us.” — Janis Couvreux Copy Share Image
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?” — Anna White Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.” — Carole Estrup Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
“While in Aspen, I was on a panel one evening with Andre Dubus III, who spoke of what happens when a memoir… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
“I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“A person’s life is a bounded thing that must end. We will leave this earth with unfinished business. Regardless of the outcome… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as… — Anthony Swofford Copy Share Image
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
