Books Quote by Jimmy Barnes

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

— Ali Liebegott

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

My life's a book; I've got a bunch of different chapters.

— Phil Murphy

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood,…

— Sue Perkins

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

— David Lindsay-Abaire

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

— Paul O'Grady

“I began writing my nonfiction memoir to explain why women, "don't just leave." My exciting, narrative-driven memoir aspires to to save others from needless…

— Cassi Janzek

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my…

— Barack Obama

My work was entirely nonfiction.

— Laura Hillenbrand

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

— Jesmyn Ward

The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'

— Karin Slaughter