Aim Quote by Emily Gould

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

— Arthur Phillips

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

— Akhil Sharma

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is…

— Junot Diaz

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're…

— Samuel Hynes

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

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

— Emma Donoghue

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and…

— Paul Auster

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If…

— Elif Batuman

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe…

— Isabel Allende

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

— Elie Wiesel

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti