Life Quote by Michael Korda

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming,…

— Michael Korda

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

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

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has…

— Eugene Ionesco

The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

— Rupert Everett

Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness…

— Sara Nelson

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.”

— Shuly Xóchitl Cawood

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now…

— Arthur Phillips

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

— Marina Abramovic

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 put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe