Always Quote by Armistead Maupin

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're…

— Samuel Hynes

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is…

— Junot Diaz

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

— Elie Wiesel

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author…

— Tayari Jones

In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger…

— Scott McClanahan

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

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

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

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

— Rob Roberge

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

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch