Books Quote by 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

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

— Sheila Heti

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who…

— Arthur Golden

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

— Richard Hell

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story,…

— Salman Rushdie

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just…

— Gary Shteyngart

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it…

— Carol Drinkwater

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina