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198 Memoir quotes by 165 unique authors

Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining… — Michaela Angela Davis
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and… — Unknown Author
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a… — Unknown Author
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called… — John F. Kennedy
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the… — Shirin Ebadi
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in… — Unknown Author
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. — Tony Blankley
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in… — Rick Springfield
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough.… — Geoff Dyer
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. — Pierre Trudeau
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost… — Eugene Ionesco
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In… — Thomas Sowell
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E.… — Erik Larson
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century — Max Beerbohm
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged… — Michiko Kakutani
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. — Shirley Jackson
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in… — Mary Karr
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs. — Rebecca Wells
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a… — Jerry Stahl
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris

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