“Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you’re trying to be sneaky.” — Suzie Ivy Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.” — Dorothy Gallagher Copy Share Image
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
“I love that there's no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that… — Maugham Somerset William Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“Each person in the group said something except for me. My silence became noticed. About halfway through the meeting I started to… — Daphne Scholinski Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“From my book, Care for the Carer, An Alzheimer's Memoir "Is there a cure?" Jane asked repeatedly. This simple sentence had several… — Jeff Camhi Copy Share Image
“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“I go to all the appointments. All the meetings. I sit with the team of inclusion teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, social workers,… — Kelley Jo Burke Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“When I’d RSVPed for tonight, I hadn’t expected to be the youngest by three-plus decades. To be honest, I hadn’t expected anything.… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me” — Don Darkes Copy Share Image
“The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.” — Greg Garrett Copy Share Image
“Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls.… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.” — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write… — Baby Halder Copy Share Image
I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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