Goal Quote by James Frey

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how…

— Ehud Olmert

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

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

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

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just…

— Gary Shteyngart

I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone should be…

— Andrea Hirata

As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who…

— Arthur Golden

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne

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

— Greil Marcus

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it…

— Carol Drinkwater