Biographies Quote by Anne Lamott

I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends.…

— Steven Pressfield

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

— Brett Davern

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels, if I…

— Carol Drinkwater

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think,…

— Annette Bening

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

— Oscar Wilde

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in…

— Jill Tweedie

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

— Al Sharpton