Memoirs Quotes · Page 5

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

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

— Cassandra Clare

“Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances…

— Alexandra Fuller

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

— Kate Zambreno

“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The”

— Shashi Tharoor

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career -…

— Robert Gottlieb

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Damian Barr

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

— Anne Lamott

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

— James Vescovi

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

— Ehud Olmert

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

— Laetitia Pilkington

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone…

— Andrea Hirata

My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which…

— Belle Boyd

“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it,…

— Wendy K. Williamson

“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Casanova Giacomo

“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

“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

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

— Kiran Manral

“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

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

— Virginia Woolf

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

— Stephen Hunter

“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

We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy…

— Nell Scovell

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary…

— Erik Larson

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that…

— Hilary Liftin

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well,…

— Will Rogers

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken…

— Augusten Burroughs

“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.”

— Tina Alexis Allen

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

— Will Rogers

“What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.”

— Anonymous

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

— Jane Fonda

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most…

— Paul Auster

“I feel like a massive wave of life just washed over me. While luck comes in many guises, winning the lottery pales…

— Charles Dyson