Believe Quote by Alexandra Fuller

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford

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

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting…

— Koren Zailckas

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

— Patricia Hampl

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to…

— Uzodinma Iweala

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20…

— Anonymous

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

— Salman Rushdie

To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative…

— William Zinsser

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

— Richard Hell

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I…

— Michelle Zauner