Grades Quote by Mitch Albom

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Erika Jayne

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

— Susan Ford

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them,…

— Condoleezza Rice

The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I…

— Michelle Zauner

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really say I…

— John Densmore

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

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and…

— Nick Earls

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

— Jim Harrison