Beauty Quote by Cheryl Strayed

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

— Elie Wiesel

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life,…

— Isabel Allende

“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir, as I…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

— Rohan Marley

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

— William Finnegan

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

— Mitch Albom

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience…

— Patricia Hampl

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to…

— Uzodinma Iweala

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford

The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward…

— Lidia Yuknavitch