Made Quote by Hilary Liftin

If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has elements of…

— Zawe Ashton

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

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

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true,…

— Anthony Powell

I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir…

— Hilary Liftin

I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has…

— Hilary Liftin

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Greil Marcus