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

“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'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

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

— Erika Jayne

The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Jim Harrison

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

Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience,…

— Patricia Hampl

The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with…

— Melissa Febos

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