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I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately…

— Richard Hell

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no…

— Peter Carey

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

— Susan Ford

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

— Erika Jayne

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

— Augusten Burroughs

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

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Richard Hell

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

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

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

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn