Autobiography Quote by Richard Hell

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story,…

— Salman Rushdie

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress…

— Homer Hickam

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

— Richard Hell

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus…

— Danielle Trussoni

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who…

— Arthur Golden

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

— Roald Dahl

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe…

— Anonymous

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 forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life,…

— Isabel Allende

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue