Books Quote by Danielle Trussoni

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

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

— Danielle Trussoni

Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience,…

— Patricia Hampl

To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative…

— William Zinsser

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

“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

Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and…

— Sue Perkins

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

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

— Richard Hell

This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good…

— Dani Shapiro

I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

— Koren Zailckas