Strive Quote by Mary Karr

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

— Elie Wiesel

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

— William Zinsser

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

— Donald Miller

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Salman Rushdie

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

— Rohan Marley

To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative…

— William Zinsser

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience…

— Patricia Hampl

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life,…

— Isabel Allende

“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

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma