Communication Quote by Paul Auster

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I…

— Isabel Allende

Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a…

— Hannah Kent

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and…

— Tara Westover

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

— William Finnegan

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

— Richard Hell

“I find that the writing of a memoir has two functions. One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to tell, the…

— Neil Simon

To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Much more than memoir; it's history.

— Russell Banks

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are…

— Paul Auster

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