Memoirs Quotes · Page 2

I will leave no memoirs.

— Comte de Lautreamont

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

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

— Pooja Bhatt

“This country makes a man younger than his birthdays.”

— Sam Keith

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

— John Major

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

— Lois Lowry

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

— Jonathan Lynn

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

— George Meredith

“His autobiography is Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster.”

— Gareth Huw Davies

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

— Kate Zambreno

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

— Cassandra Clare

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the…

— Cleveland Amory

“I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse,"…

— Savannah Grace

“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)”

— Barbara Blatner

I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.

— Jaya Bachchan

“Grant’s catatonic state didn’t last. Soon he was devoting four or five hours daily to his memoirs,”

— Ron Chernow

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV,…

— Augusten Burroughs

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if…

— Laetitia Pilkington

“Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober…

— James Vescovi

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,…

— Anne Lamott

I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens…

— Damian Barr

Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what…

— John F. Kennedy

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were…

— Ehud Olmert

“Once more, I was left alone. My way of dealing with emotional distress was to immediately engage my heart and intellect in…

— Jacqueline Tusi

It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I…

— Paul Auster

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing…

— Margery Allingham

“She would not say of any one in the world that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

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

“The most difficult thing to do after a life well lived is to sit down and type it all out. To start…

— Kiran Manral

“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

“Here it is. You assume that I am rich; I am not. I shall have nothing once I have emptied my purse.…

— Casanova Giacomo

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

— Gloria Swanson

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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— John Cooper Clarke