“William Styron's book ‘Memoirs in Madness’. She underlined nearly the whole thing.” — Bella Stumbo Copy Share Image
“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.” — Shuly Xóchitl Cawood Copy Share Image
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
“Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic.” — Wendy Aron 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
“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
“Yes, sir, I will,” there was a nervous edge in her voice, but now it was too late. Her session had begun.” — Charles Dyson Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...just when you think there isn't any left inside to give, an indestructable inner strength is borne...” — Fs Fayth Copy Share Image
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“He opened the letter and read its contents. A stiffness grew in his loins as her sexual fantasies were laid bare, written… — Charles Dyson Copy Share Image
The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Memoirs of An Unfortunate Young Nobleman, Returned from a Thirteen Years' Slavery in America, Where He was Sent by the Wicked Contrivances… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at… — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
“Memoirs? No, we want a how-to book. For spies.” “A how-to book?! A book can’t teach someone how to be equal parts… — It Books Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different… — Arthur Golden 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
“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a man plops… — Adair Lara Copy Share Image
“The most difficult thing to do after a life well lived is to sit down and type it all out. To start… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“Here it is. You assume that I am rich; I am not. I shall have nothing once I have emptied my purse.… — Casanova Giacomo Copy Share Image
“Life is an ongoing journey where the intrepid traveler explores as many tributaries in the river of life as possible. Living consists… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the… — Lara Vapnyar Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
It's hard to get in the head of somebody. The closest we can get is through the words they've left behind, either… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church… — Mark Leslie Copy Share Image
People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able.… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
![“The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my…” quote by Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b5d/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_cutting_the-parts-in-which-i-elaborated-on-the-s_422916.jpg)
![“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of their own.” quote by John le Carré](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/158/john-le-carre-651_autobiographies_a-n-old-writer-s-memory-is-the-whore-of_1720652.jpg)
