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198 Memoir quotes by 165 unique authors

Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way… — Unknown Author
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team,… — Jon Krakauer
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know… — Isabel Allende
Much more than memoir; it's history. — Russell Banks
The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive. — Dave Pelzer
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth… — Anne Lamott
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and… — Dinty W. Moore
Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo… — Dinty W. Moore
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so… — Michelle Yeoh
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in its wonderful humor… — Judith Barrington
If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired… — Judith Barrington
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about… — Augusten Burroughs
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind… — Tao Lin
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the… — Maureen Corrigan
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald
I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down. — Karl Lagerfeld
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives… — Harlan Ellison
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. — Dani Shapiro
Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's… — Dani Shapiro
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. — Calvin Trillin

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