Bizarre Quote by Edmund White

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory…

— David Leavitt

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

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author…

— Tayari Jones

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

— Emma Donoghue

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

— Akhil Sharma

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

— William Zinsser

In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger…

— Scott McClanahan

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

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

— Salman Rushdie

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

— Patricia Hampl

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

— Isabel Allende