Another Quote by Arthur Phillips

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

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

— Paul Auster

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just…

— Susan Cheever

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

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'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

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and…

— Sue Perkins

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

— Emily Gould

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