Memoir-writing Quote by Maureen Murdock Download Open image ““Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers.”” — Maureen Murdock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memoir-writing
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some… — John Bierhorst Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.” — John Pirillo Copy Share Image
“When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions… — Maureen Murdock Copy Share Image
The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life. — Maureen Murdock Copy Share Image
“Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a… — Maureen Murdock Copy Share Image
When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well. — Maureen Murdock Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture to locate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld abstract ideas… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The writer’s obsessions are twofold. First, communicate their thoughts onto paper with a great degree of precision in order accurately to express everything that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and personal capacity… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal essays no… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Language is our identity tool and by using experience, observation, and imagination, we each discover the words that give voice to our lives. To… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create the spectrum… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot of inner… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Language is an exploratory tool. Linking observations and thoughts in an orderly fashion is the business of a philosopher. A writer is constantly reshaping… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
