Agents Quote by Nora Ephron

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create…

— James Frey

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20…

— Anonymous

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's…

— Walter Kirn

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just…

— Gary Shteyngart

All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having…

— Deborah Reber

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

— Anonymous

I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone should be…

— Andrea Hirata

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective…

— Debra Monroe

Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one

— V