Biographies Quote by Arthur Golden

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus…

— Danielle Trussoni

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

— Richard Hell

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story,…

— Salman Rushdie

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

As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress…

— Homer Hickam

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create…

— James Frey

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

— George Meredith

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

— Richard Hell

Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel -…

— Lucas Mann