Books Quote by Jessica Brown Findlay

I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'.…

— Gore Vidal

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

— Clarence Thomas

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When…

— Agnes Moorehead

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now…

— Arthur Phillips

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

— Marina Abramovic

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

“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often…

— Casanova

We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.

— Nell Scovell

“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and…

— Arthur Golden

The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The”

— Shashi Tharoor

“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the…

— Lisa Cron

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe