“Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you can start writing your memoirs.” — Mark Allen Smith Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“With regard to the gospels, biblical scholarship has mixed-up theology with history, thereby turning the eschatology of the epistles into memoirs.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
“In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's… — Oscar Hijuelos 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
“U međuvremenu, opet po savetu nekih ličnosti koje su dobro poznavale umetničku sredinu i “ambijent”, potražio sam Gijoma Apolinera. On je stanovao… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents'… — James Vescovi Copy Share Image
“Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred… — Jennings Michael Burch Copy Share Image
“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Yes, I’m sure the universe connected us and may do so again when it deems the time is right. Until then, in… — Charles Dyson Copy Share Image
“And if somehow Marc was serious, I knew that by the time our engagement was announced, I’d be an expert at celebrating.… — Hilary Grossman Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to fulfill someone’s heart’s desires and make them happy. Learn new things about life and have memorable… — Charles Dyson Copy Share Image
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“U Parizu su postojale dve vrste snobizma, naročito među izvesnim piscima. Jedan se sastojao u tome da ljudi izigravaju katolike, što su… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
