Draft Quote by Michelle Zauner

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting…

— Koren Zailckas

Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and…

— Sue Perkins

The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

— Erika Jayne

I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that…

— Joshua Mohr

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

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

— Salman Rushdie

I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to…

— Leigh Newman

I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and…

— Tara Westover

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to…

— Uzodinma Iweala

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