American society Quote by Marco Roth

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just…

— Susan Cheever

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

— Justin Cartwright

One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a…

— James Gleick

“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.”

— Jane Alison

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods…

— Michael Helm

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

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of…

— Walter Kirn

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

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

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