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• Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor
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• I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas
• The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's… — Vivian Gornick
• The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like… — Mary Karr
• Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman
• To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to… — Blake Bailey
• As a memoirist, I strive for veracity. — Mary Karr

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