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I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested in.

— Justine Bateman

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

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

Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel -…

— Lucas Mann

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been…

— Judith Barrington

If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost impossible to…

— Tom Paulin

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

— Vivian Gornick

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

— Calvin Trillin

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

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

— Cynthia Voigt