Autobiography Quote by Oscar Wilde

I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends.…

— Steven Pressfield

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little…

— Anne Lamott

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

— Brett Davern

Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness…

— Sara Nelson

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels, if I…

— Carol Drinkwater

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

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

Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of…

— Paul Auster

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

— Jen Lancaster

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

— Tom Robbins