Ignored Quote by Rebecca Serle

Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am…

— Immanuel Kant

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

— Rob Roberge

I would like to say, and I think I am truthful, and I think I am honest when I say that I love doing…

— Tobias Forge

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're…

— Samuel Hynes

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.…

— Edwidge Danticat

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating…

— Gary Kemp

“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the…

— Richard Castle

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty…

— Tony Parsons

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

— Diane Ackerman

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there…

— Anton Chekhov