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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by… — Jeannette Walls
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything. — Jen Lancaster
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing… — Mark Leyner
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and… — David Leavitt
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. — Sally Ride
When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was… — Karrine Steffans
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since… — Anthony Powell
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy. — Donald Miller
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some… — Sue Monk Kidd
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat… — Julia Cameron
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such… — Leslie Fiedler
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that… — Dave Eggers
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest… — Peter Carey
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general. — Brett Davern
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that… — Barry Eichengreen
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or… — James Frey
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling… — Tayari Jones
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known,… — Caroline Knapp
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it. — Woody Allen
Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight… — Jay Leno

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