Children Quote by Rachel Cusk

Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and…

— Sue Perkins

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting…

— Koren Zailckas

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

“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'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

The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with…

— Melissa Febos

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

Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may…

— William Zinsser

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

— Richard Hell

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms…

— Cornel West