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198 Memoir quotes by 165 unique authors

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's… — Conor Oberst
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. — Tom Robbins
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs. — Will Rogers
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live… — Salman Rushdie
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas… — Salman Rushdie
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. — Alexei Sayle
I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want… — Steve Vai
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar… — Ayelet Waldman
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. — Elie Wiesel
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I… — Jeanette Winterson
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1)… — David Letterman
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you… — Jeannette Walls
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit… — Janette Rallison
Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical… — Lauren Slater
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries
One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on… — Mark Helprin
She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s… — Peter Cameron
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted… — Malcolm X
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon… — Koren Zailckas
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which… — Nick Flynn
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating… — David Mitchell
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one… — Ravi Zacharias
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs. — Cassandra Clare

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