Being true Quote by Augusten Burroughs

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

No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food…

— Jonis Agee

I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir…

— Hilary Liftin

I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have…

— MC Lars

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

— Joanna Trollope

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do…

— Alexandra Fuller

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when…

— Questlove

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

In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my…

— Shahid Afridi

In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read…

— Danielle Trussoni

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

— Gary Shteyngart

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