Memoir Quote by Jackie Sarah Parry Download Open image ““I just want to see places – something inside me just makes me keep moving.”” — Jackie Sarah Parry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memoir
“I see you moving and me here. Ever-moving. But sometimes moving in one place without ever leaving, yet knowing you could leave.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There are people in my situation who stick to the same place, who draw an invisible line around themselves and won't go outside of… — Sarah Butler Copy Share Image
“We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like I'm slowly floating away. I'm constantly looking for something to grab on to so I don't lose myself.” — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“I try to like the way the world is changing, but there seems to be no extra room for me inside.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“One's destination is never a place, rather a new way of looking at things.” — Henry Valentine Miller Copy Share Image
“If we're not trying to get to any particular place, we can't ever really be lost. We're just exploring.” — Cora Carmack Finding It Copy Share Image
“When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.” — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.” — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with… — Debra Monroe Copy Share
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now you can drown in the stink or turn it into compost and grow a garden. I wouldn't't be as good a teacher to you if I didn't know what you're going through.… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his life, he’d had more than his share of broken dreams and disappointments. He lived through the Depression, a war, a couple of failed businesses and the deaths of two wives, but he always found a way to pick… — L.K. Campbell Copy Share
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
