Memoir Quotes

198 quotes by 172 authors

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom
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
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be… — Giacomo Casanova
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if… — Isabel Allende
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring. — Harlan Coben
Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr
No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. — Garrison Keillor
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely… — James Clerk Maxwell
In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she… — Anne Robinson
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Memoirs are the backstairs of history. — George Meredith
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know… — Larry Heinemann
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
This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English. — Bill Maher
George Bowering doesnâ€™t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has… — Robert Kroetsch
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a… — David Halberstam

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