Cancer Quote by Kelly Corrigan

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she…

— Susanne Bier

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take…

— Joe Biden

I worked through cancer twice. I probably worked through it too much the last time. This time, I found myself saying, 'Well, I don't…

— Molly Ivins

“You don’t need to be someone you’re not. Haven’t you learned that? Stop being scared and face the world. I know you’re not in…

— Amanda Maxlyn

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

— Anonymous

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

— Natalie Merchant

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can…

— Rebecca O'Donnell

“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more…

— Susan Hamilton

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.”

— Jo Treggiari

I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard”

— Mala Naidoo

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno