Always Quote by 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

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

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many…

— Julia Glass

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

— Jim Harrison

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately…

— Richard Hell

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

— Erika Jayne

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

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

— Jesmyn Ward

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

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

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

— Bill Ayers

To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form…

— Lidia Yuknavitch