Books Quote by Gary Shteyngart

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

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

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

In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read…

— Danielle Trussoni

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting…

— Koren Zailckas

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress…

— Homer Hickam

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life,…

— Isabel Allende

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 going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

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

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn