Confined Quote by Edwin A. Abbott

“another book is another dimension. another life full of imagination.”

— Kevin Armando

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

— John Major

There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to…

— Albert Einstein

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

“the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn’t close enough, or when enough generations have passed…

— Michael Bunker

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess…

— Jennifer Egan

Humanity lives in its fiction.

— Blaise Cendrars

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

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people…

— David Gerrold