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“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

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

— Richard Hell

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

— Sean Wilsey

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

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

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

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

— Uzodinma Iweala

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

“I find that the writing of a memoir has two functions. One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to tell, the…

— Neil Simon

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