Always Quote by Jennifer Egan

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

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

— Damian Barr

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

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

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

— John Major

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

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

— Pauline Kael

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

— Calvin Trillin

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 most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that…

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— Greil Marcus

Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness…

— Sara Nelson