About yourself Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself…

— Caroline Knapp

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life,…

— Isabel Allende

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe…

— Anonymous

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may…

— William Zinsser

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

— William Finnegan

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

— Richard Hell

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

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

— Elie Wiesel

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately…

— Richard Hell