Aria Quote by Patricia Hampl

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to…

— Uzodinma Iweala

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

— Richard Hell

“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of…

— John Green

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

Much more than memoir; it's history.

— Russell Banks

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of…

— Walter Kirn

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

— Elie Wiesel

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

— Patricia Hampl

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I…

— Cheryl Strayed

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

— William Finnegan

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

— Mary Karr