Capacity Quote by Cornel West

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

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing…

— Rachel Cusk

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey

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

— Richard Hell

Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light…

— Anonymous

A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

— Steve Martin

One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly…

— Lidia Yuknavitch