I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. — Torvald Gahlin 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
“Not for nothing, but if you do that again, I'm gonna have to punch ya fuckin' heart out!” — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
“If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.” — James Cambias Copy Share Image
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot 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
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
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you can start writing your memoirs.” — Mark Allen Smith Copy Share Image
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man… — Eugene Ionesco 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
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
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth 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
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
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We… — john darnton Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner 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
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
“In Julia’s view, the Dent slaves were all “very happy. At least they were in mamma’s time, though the young ones became… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“From the cover blurb on the University of Wisconsin Press edition, writer unknown: Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and… — G. Thomas Couser Copy Share Image
“As long as I'm between home and the clinic I do all right. But out in the real world, I feel like… — Julie Gregory Copy Share Image
“Language is our identity tool and by using experience, observation, and imagination, we each discover the words that give voice to our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic.” — Wendy Aron Copy Share Image
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
