Memoirs Quote by Jane Alison

“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of links, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of…

— John Green

“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too painful to…

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

“Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.”

— Chaim Potok

“Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.”

— Karen Azinger

“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

— Tim O'Brien

“When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions…

— Maureen Murdock

“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than…

— John Green

“I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out…

— Yeonmi Park

“We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them…

— Sarah Dessen

“How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should supersede them.”

— Stephanie Danler

“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir, as I…

— Sonia Sotomayor