Actual Quote by Julia Glass

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford

The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just…

— Gary Shteyngart

I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

— Koren Zailckas

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

— Koren Zailckas

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

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life,…

— Isabel Allende

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself…

— David Foster Wallace

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative nonfiction must…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having…

— Deborah Reber

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma