Best Memoir Sayings

198 Memoir quotes by 165 unique authors

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 on… — Jonis Agee
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up… — Edwin A. Abbott
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very… — Joanna Murray-Smith
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person… — Rosemary Mahoney
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in… — Vivian Gornick
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's… — Anthony Swofford
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage… — Hope Edelman
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle… — Dani Shapiro
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers… — George S. Patton
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering. — Oscar Wilde
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.… — Raymond Chandler
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing… — Andy Hertzfeld
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to… — Nick Flynn
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the… — Janine Benyus
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand… — Constance Hale
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point… — Constance Hale
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder… — Jean Houston
Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated. Joy and a… — Unknown Author
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves… — Andy Behrman
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As… — Koren Zailckas
I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting… — Susan Cheever
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on… — Unknown Author

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