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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness -… — Sara Nelson
Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed in the eye… — David Letterman
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most… — Mira Bartok
Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe,… — Mira Bartok
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy… — Gore Vidal
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do… — Gary Shteyngart
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and… — Judy Collins
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a… — Sloane Crosley
I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life.… — Jamie Lee Curtis
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material… — Rachel Cusk
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism… — Junot Diaz
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. — Leslie Fiedler
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. — Carrie Fisher
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had… — Jerry B. Jenkins
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer. — Mary Karr
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr
I will leave no memoirs. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. — John Major
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think… — David Mamet
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the… — P.J. O'Rourke
My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young… — Joyce Carol Oates

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