Mind Quote by Patricia Hampl Download Open image “Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.” — Patricia Hampl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mind Psychology Stories Wish
Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more. — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as… — Rich Shapero Copy Share Image
“Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not here trying to convince anybody to vote for Donald Trump. I think every Christian needs to make up his own mind about… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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