Am Quote by David Shields

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that…

— Ishmael Beah

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting…

— Koren Zailckas

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

— Carly Fiorina

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

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious…

— Laurie Foos

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of…

— Robert Walser

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to…

— Uzodinma Iweala

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.

— Vivian Gornick

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne