Memoirs Quotes

I will leave no memoirs.

— Comte de Lautreamont

“Memoirs lie, but fiction tells the truth.”

— Philip Roth

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

— Jane Fonda

“Conformity is deformity”

— Sharon Desruisseaux

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

— Ian Mckellen

At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.

— Pooja Bhatt

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

“Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.”

— Terry Nardin

But who has time to write memoirs? Im still living my memoirs

— Anonymous

“None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.”

— James Vescovi

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

— Peter Capaldi

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.

— John Cooper Clarke

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

— Karl Lagerfeld

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

— Arthur Schnitzler

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

— Garrison Keillor

“He opened the letter and read its contents. A stiffness grew in his loins as her sexual fantasies were laid bare, written…

— Charles Dyson

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

“Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece…

— Stavro Nashi

“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral…

— Piper Kerman

“I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church…

— Mark Leslie

“[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

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able.…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

— William J. Clinton

“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

Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics…

— Kate Madison

Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is…

— Tao Lin

It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General…

— H. R. McMaster

“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

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

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have…

— Italo Calvino

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance…

— Neil Simon

“I find that the writing of a memoir has two functions. One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to…

— Neil Simon

“Suppose..." And for the first time he linked his hand with hers. "He runs and wins and lives to a ripe old…

— Nora Roberts

“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

“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

“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to…

— Arthur Golden

Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a…

— Lucas Mann

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I asked Bill what career path he thought I should take, and he replied, “Live the artist’s life.” For years I pondered…

— Mallory M. O'Connor