Affair Quote by Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how…

— Ehud Olmert

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is…

— Fawn M. Brodie

“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral thing I've…

— Piper Kerman

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

— George Eliot

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire…

— Charles Spurgeon

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

— Ian Mcewan

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create…

— James Frey

“there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.”

— Robert Graves