Believe Quote by Frederick Busch

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and…

— Sue Perkins

To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative…

— William Zinsser

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and…

— Nick Earls

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

— Susan Ford

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

— Edmund White

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

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an…

— Hilary Liftin

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in…

— Sue Monk Kidd

We hear from sex workers who have through their own volition become media figures, or have despite their own wishes become media figures. Like…

— Melissa Gira Grant

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

— Isabel Allende