If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.” — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn Copy Share Image
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. There were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.” — Thomas M. Cirignano Copy Share Image
“As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
“Because when you’re a 23-year old party girl who has to pee you don’t really think about the possibility that your nerdy… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“I have this beast. He comes and goes at will. Silence. He's very powerful. Silence. He has control over me. Silence. I… — Julie Mannix von Zerneck Copy Share Image
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir]… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Raskin's memoir is oddly entertaining. Perhaps it is his earnestness and determination. So long as he believes Ando will guide and support… — San Francisco Chronicle Copy Share Image
“Our destiny is aligned with our heart's innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat… — Suzy Becker Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“These days I feel empowered by the same disturbing stories that once broke my spirit.” — Arelis Calkins Copy Share Image
“Cats have nine lives. Sons do not. Were times when I worried. Worried a lot.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.” — M.C. Halliday Copy Share Image
When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty. A beautiful and powerful memoir.” — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)” — Saloma Miller Furlong Copy Share Image
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.” — Rachel Kapelke-Dale Copy Share Image
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
![“When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb4/paul-auster-351_america_when-the-publisher-here-in-america-wante_256145.jpg)
![“[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/nat-hentoff-1615_bills_madness-happened-so-frequently-i-think-w_1571691.jpg)
![“I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat or dog book; I felt compelled. At the time (May 1999), I was planning to write and illustrate an altogether different memoir, a book about my decision whether or not to have a baby.” quote by Suzy Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/suzy-becker-38888_baby_i-never-felt-inspired-to-write-this-book_604243.jpg)
