“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“Oscar Wilde said: 'Biography lends to death a new terror.' Well, memoir adds that same promise to parenting.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.” — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time,… — Deb Simpson Copy Share Image
“Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like… — Peter Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
“BARRY GIFFORD, Author of "Wild at Heart", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester: "Marisa Lankester's unique chronicle of high crimes and low… — Barry Gifford Copy Share Image
“I had enough of a story churning in my head that combined all the elements of the day—the interview, the concert, the… — Kenny Weissberg Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it,… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his… — L.K. Campbell Copy Share Image
“Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“...a memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph.” — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“There’s irony in a beautiful curl slowly turning into a tangled mess, beyond resurrection, in a matter of minutes.” — Shelley Taylor Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.” — Karen Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
