Books Quote by Mitch Albom

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

— Lauren Graham

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

— Mitch Albom

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

— Richard Hell

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

— Salman Rushdie

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an…

— Hilary Liftin

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

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

— Erika Jayne

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too…

— Rachel Cusk

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

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

— Jim Harrison

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

— Harlan Coben