Aspect Quote by Jeannette Walls

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all…

— Dave Eggers

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but…

— Danae Elon

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

— Kate Atkinson

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too…

— Rachel Cusk

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose…

— Billy Collins

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose…

— Billy Collins

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is…

— Vikram Seth

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

— Chris Bohjalian

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

— Mitch Albom