Brother Quote by Andre Aciman

In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too,…

— Hisham Matar

I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did something that…

— Leigh Newman

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing…

— Cary Grant

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

— Erika Jayne

You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did…

— Annie Dillard

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

— Bruce Willis

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world,…

— Kevin Keck

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my…

— Barack Obama

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

— Susan Ford

Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The…

— Jenny Zhang

For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted…

— Hassan Blasim