Dream Quote by John Green

“When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions…

— Maureen Murdock

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.”

— Mary Karr

“this is the story of my life so far. I get that it’s kind of odd for someone my age to be writing a…

— Joey Graceffa

“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.”

— Jane Alison

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

— Susan Ford

I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that…

— Joshua Mohr

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience…

— Patricia Hampl

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe…

— Anonymous

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

— Erika Jayne