About Quote by Lisa Jakub

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

— Lisa Jakub

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

— Michael Korda

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 can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life that's not…

— Dave Itzkoff

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood,…

— Sue Perkins

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe…

— Anonymous

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

One of the reasons I wanted to write a memoir was because I'm tired of telling my story. [Laughs] So I can say, here,…

— Julian Edelman

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my…

— Barack Obama

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

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