Craze Quote by Richard Hell

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

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

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

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn

The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

— Paul Auster

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all…

— Dave Eggers

I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I made a…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Richard Hell

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

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

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

— Randall Park