Bottles Quote by Lauren Graham

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

— Mitch Albom

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an…

— Hilary Liftin

The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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 actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and…

— Nick Earls

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

— Erika Jayne

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

— Harlan Coben

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

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

— Jim Harrison

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

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too…

— Rachel Cusk