"Whatever shall we do in that remote spot?……" — Napoleon Bonaparte

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• A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence… — Mitch Albom
• Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting… — Mitch Albom
• I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom
• The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my… — Giacomo Casanova
• I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer… — Sandra Cisneros
• I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers.… — Isabel Allende
• A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton
• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring. — Harlan Coben
• Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr
• No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. — Garrison Keillor
• It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for… — James Clerk Maxwell
• In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone… — Anne Robinson

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