Certain Quote by Laetitia Pilkington

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

— Calvin Trillin

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess…

— Jennifer Egan

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it…

— Carol Drinkwater

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

— John Major

“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral thing I've…

— Piper Kerman

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

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

— Greil Marcus

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker

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

“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could produce one…

— Nick Hornby

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

— Will Rogers