Feel Quote by John Wilson

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too…

— Rachel Cusk

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

— Paul Auster

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I made a…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and…

— Tara Westover

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

— Randall Park

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

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

— Rohan Marley

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting…

— Koren Zailckas

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

— Harlan Coben

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

— Jim Harrison

I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate…

— Dan Burt