Compromise Quote by Al Pacino

I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything…

— Al Pacino

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

— Jane Fonda

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

— Will Rogers

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it…

— Carol Drinkwater

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is…

— Sandra Cisneros

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

— Kate Morton

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little…

— Jill Tweedie

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

— Pauline Kael

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

— John Amos

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and…

— Jerry B. Jenkins