Memoir Quote by Carrie Fisher Download Open image ““Heaven's no place for one who thrives on hell.”” — Carrie Fisher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memoir Nonfiction Poetry
“I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell.” — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Heaven or Hell has ALWAYS been a choice one makes, and has never been a place one goes.” — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
“He will take this hell on earth and someday show us how hell was building heaven.” — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“They say theres a Heaven...but all I've ever been through is Hell.” — Josh Salvador Copy Share Image
“Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.” — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“Whosoever is ambitious to be his own heaven, will at last find his soul to become its own hell.” — William Symington Copy Share Image
“The choice of heaven or hell starts right here on Earth. When we leave this life we will already know where we will go.” — Mihail Militaru Copy Share Image
“I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don’t just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you’ve ever encountered. I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.” — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with… — Debra Monroe Copy Share
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now you can drown in the stink or turn it into compost and grow a garden. I wouldn't't be as good a teacher to you if I didn't know what you're going through.… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his life, he’d had more than his share of broken dreams and disappointments. He lived through the Depression, a war, a couple of failed businesses and the deaths of two wives, but he always found a way to pick… — L.K. Campbell Copy Share
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
