Accusing Quote by Ayelet Waldman

“I won't say that writing tamed the Black Beast. It soothed him, though, enough so he agreed simply to occupy a corner of my…

— Terri Cheney

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

— Jim Harrison

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions…

— Siri Hustvedt

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

— Susan Ford

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

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

— Erika Jayne

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford

“Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely…

— Ben Yagoda

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

— Lauren Graham

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

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

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an…

— Hilary Liftin