Communication Quote by Paul Auster

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 frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

— Pauline Kael

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I…

— 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 think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

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

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

— Arthur Schnitzler

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

— Oscar Wilde

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

— Joshua Mohr