Courage Quote by Peter Carey

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and…

— Nick Earls

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that…

— Judith Krantz

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

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

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

— Stephen Hawking

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

— Nadine Gordimer

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

— Isabel Allende

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too…

— Rachel Cusk

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann