Borrowed Quote by Rick Moody

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

— Erika Jayne

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20…

— Anonymous

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

— Jim Harrison

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

— Mitch Albom

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

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Pamela Druckerman

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb…

— Koren Zailckas

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

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't…

— Janice Erlbaum

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford