This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It's like, I don't ever want the imagery to become stale; I don't want the quality of the memoir material to ever… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I… — Cara Lopez Lee Copy Share Image
“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up” — Madeleine Black Copy Share Image
I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“ The trouble was that I failed to record so much , I wrote, but how could I have believed that if… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
“She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good… — Eric Arrouze Copy Share Image
“We're human. We all occasionally wet ourselves. No one is really better than anyone else. We're just all trying to make it… — Wade Rouse Copy Share Image
“The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The selection process is simple. Hubby exhausts every ploy in his psychological arsenal to filter out the liars, fakes, and undesirables. (If… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan… — Doug "Ten" Rose Copy Share Image
“The idea of practicing love is deeply appealing to me, because built right in is an acceptance of imperfection. There is an… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“The Lush hadn’t driven in almost a decade - ever since she got in an accident that shook her so badly she… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.” — Josh Wagner Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
“I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.” — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real… — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“Courage is not only about finding bravery for ourselves. It is also about helping others find theirs.” — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.” — Lina Rehal Copy Share Image
Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the… — Anna White Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.” — Dimitra Ekmektsis Copy Share Image
“She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.” — Tina Alexis Allen Copy Share Image
