'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.” — Mickey Leigh Copy Share Image
“Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.” — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give,… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Lesson learned: If you’re already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The teacher pulled out a pile of papers. They were Bennie’s tests and homework assignments. Mrs. Lewis said, “Ma’am, here is the… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Although my understanding of exactly how much trouble I was in grew more specific over time, as a child I surely understood… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its… — Terry Wolverton Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
“After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.” — Patricia Amis Copy Share Image
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.” — Jason Najum Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.” — Jackie Sarah Parry Copy Share Image
“A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.” — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
“I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons.” — Benay Nordby Copy Share Image
