Books Quote by Joe Eszterhas

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

— Hilary Liftin

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

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous…

— Larry Brooks

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

— Greil Marcus

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

— Michael Korda

Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of…

— Paul Auster

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

— Jane Fonda

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess…

— Jennifer Egan

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

— Manuel Puig

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

— Harold Ramis