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93 Memoirs quotes by 89 unique authors

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering. — Oscar Wilde
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.… — Raymond Chandler
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing… — Andy Hertzfeld
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand… — Constance Hale
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point… — Constance Hale
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth… — Anne Lamott
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so… — Michelle Yeoh
If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired… — Judith Barrington
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind… — Tao Lin
I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down. — Karl Lagerfeld
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives… — Harlan Ellison
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. — Calvin Trillin
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
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
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
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn
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

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