Desire Quote by Mary Karr

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 love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

— Brett Davern

There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.

— Tim O'Reilly

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little…

— Anne Lamott

Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.

— Debra Monroe

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

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't…

— Janice Erlbaum

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

— Alexei Sayle

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

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

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20…

— Anonymous