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The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

— Kate Zambreno

“One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of oppression came…

— Terry Eagleton

On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about literary forms,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place…

— Isabel Allende

I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone should be…

— Andrea Hirata

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately…

— Richard Hell

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more…

— Jennifer Weiner

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is…

— Howard Nemerov

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of…

— Walter Kirn

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

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to…

— Uzodinma Iweala