Books Quote by Anonymous

“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

When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what…

— Jesmyn Ward

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write…

— Harlan Ellison

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think,…

— Faith Adiele

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were…

— John Lurie

Writing your memoir is inherently narcissistic.

— Laura Jane Grace

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just…

— Gary Shteyngart

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms…

— Cornel West

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

— Lauren Graham

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

— Mitch Albom

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

— Marina Abramovic

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

— Damian Barr

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe