Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett 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
“William Styron's book ‘Memoirs in Madness’. She underlined nearly the whole thing.” — Bella Stumbo Copy Share Image
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end. — George Meredith 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
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
“...just when you think there isn't any left inside to give, an indestructable inner strength is borne...” — Fs Fayth Copy Share Image
Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Anonymous 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
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
“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an… — Agatha Christie 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
“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting… — James Thurber 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
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
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books… — Arthur Phillips 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a… — Jim Corbett Copy Share Image
“For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“Quickly she shredded the cabbage on the chopping block and tossed it along with the onion and tomatoes in a blue Pyrex… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
“You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn Copy Share Image
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Although I still think of myself as an actress, most of my time is spent writing novels or memoirs about my adventures… — Carol Drinkwater 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/i/b5d/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_cutting_the-parts-in-which-i-elaborated-on-the-s_422916.jpg)
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