“And there's nothing more dangerous than a written memoir.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.” — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
“Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.” — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“A lot of men tend to want "models" I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to… — Trisha Ventker Copy Share Image
“How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale Copy Share Image
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either! — Peter Serafinowicz Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true… — Julie Flygare Copy Share Image
“Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab… — Claire Sylvia Copy Share Image
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents.… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
“I think of the privilege it is to be able to speak life over these hurting people and believe in new life… — Katie Davis Majors Copy Share Image
“Sex is not a wizard, whatever magical-seeming properties it might possess in its better forms. If your friend says to you, "You're… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,… — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
“We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
