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The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my…

— Barack Obama

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an…

— Terry Pratchett

“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir, as I…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a…

— Jack Hemingway

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

— Noah Baumbach

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your…

— Robert Gottlieb

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that…

— Mira Bartok

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

— Michael Korda

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of…

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

— Lauren Graham

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

— Hilary Liftin