Certain Quote by David Leavitt

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

— Edmund White

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

— Elie Wiesel

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

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I…

— Cheryl Strayed

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

— Akhil Sharma

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

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

— Salman Rushdie

The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with…

— Melissa Febos

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

— Emma Donoghue

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

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress…

— Homer Hickam

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe…

— Anonymous