Dream Quote by John Green

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

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that…

— Craig Ferguson

I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want…

— Hattie Morahan

When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what…

— Jesmyn Ward

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write…

— Harlan Ellison

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think,…

— Faith Adiele

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

— Mitch Albom

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were…

— John Lurie

Writing your memoir is inherently narcissistic.

— Laura Jane Grace

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just…

— Gary Shteyngart

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms…

— Cornel West