Critique Quote by 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

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that…

— Rosemary Mahoney

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

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

As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

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

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

— Joshua Mohr

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

— William Finnegan

The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find…

— Neil Simon