Catching Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.

— Debra Monroe

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

— Tom Robbins

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines. Things that…

— Don Winslow

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more…

— Flannery O'Connor

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them,…

— John Updike

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

— Greil Marcus

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

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many…

— Julia Glass

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that…

— Raymond Queneau