Being true Quote by Augusten Burroughs

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

— Mitch Albom

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

— Akhil Sharma

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and…

— Nick Earls

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

— Erika Jayne

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

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

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

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

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

One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly…

— Lidia Yuknavitch