Believe Quote by Danielle Trussoni

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

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

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

In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read…

— Danielle Trussoni

Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel -…

— Lucas Mann

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

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation,…

— Julia Glass

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just…

— Gary Shteyngart

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

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

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti

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

— Richard Hell