Arrivals Quote by Julie Andrews

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

— Ernest Gaines

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood,…

— Sue Perkins

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them,…

— Condoleezza Rice

I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn…

— Daniel Tammet

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a…

— Julia Glass

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from…

— Adam Silvera

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

— Michael Korda

My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor…

— Lisa Jakub

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

— Dana Perino

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

— Lisa Jakub

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't…

— Janice Erlbaum

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to…

— Alberto Manguel