Common Quote by Joshua Mohr

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

— Damian Barr

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

— George Meredith

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who…

— Arthur Golden

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

— Jen Lancaster

As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are…

— Paul Auster

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20…

— Anonymous