Courage Quote by Jean Houston

“When each earthly brace falls under, And life seems a restless sea, Are you then a God-held wonder, Satisfied and calm and free?”

— L.B. Cowman

“Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely…

— Ben Yagoda

I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to…

— Leigh Newman

“I wrote this memoir to show I can help others do what I had the courage to do for myself; write a family legacy.…

— Edie Little

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that…

— Ishmael Beah

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Borman much later admitted that he was, as Cernan wrote in his memoir, “sick as a dog* all the way to the moon.”

— Mary Roach

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

— Natalie Goldberg

We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.

— Larry Page

“Believing in God, invisible yet supreme, I also believed it possible so to yearn for him with all my soul that he would take…

— Lew Wallace

“It was crazy, what young people believed was possible, what so many earnest twenty-three-year-olds took for granted about the rest of their lives.”

— Emma Straub

Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible.

— Nalini Singh