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“My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
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“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently… — Frank Kusy Copy Share Image
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“The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that… — Brett Tate Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
“I didn’t exactly raise my hand and shout “I want to work for the devil!” but I ended up doing his bidding… — Leslie Sorrell Copy Share Image
Wildlife was the only thing we've written together with Paul Dano. It's based on a book by this author Richard Ford, who… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
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