Accounts Quote by Jeanette Winterson

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

— Elie Wiesel

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life,…

— Isabel Allende

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”

— K. Ritz

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience…

— Patricia Hampl

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe…

— Anonymous

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

— Patricia Hampl

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

— Rohan Marley

“We all spin stories. That's what we do. We want people to see certain things about us and not others. What matters is whether…

— Maya Lang

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey