Fiction Quote by Akhil Sharma

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

— Elie Wiesel

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

— Rohan Marley

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

— Rob Roberge

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming…

— Armistead Maupin

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

— Arthur Phillips

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

— Robert A. Heinlein

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author…

— Tayari Jones