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- A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom
- Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a… — Mitch Albom
- I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom
- The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if… — Giacomo Casanova
- I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros
- I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the… — Isabel Allende
- A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton
- I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring. — Harlan Coben
- Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr
- No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. — Garrison Keillor
- It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is… — James Clerk Maxwell
- In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their… — Anne Robinson