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Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

— Damian Barr

I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone should be…

— Andrea Hirata

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who…

— Arthur Golden

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

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

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how…

— Ehud Olmert

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create…

— James Frey

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus…

— Danielle Trussoni