Memoir Quote by Rosemary Mahoney

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess…

— Jennifer Egan

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

— George Meredith

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

Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of…

— Paul Auster

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are…

— Paul Auster

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find…

— Neil Simon

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

— Greil Marcus

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

— Jen Lancaster