Funny Quote by Russell Banks Download Open image “Much more than memoir; it's history.” — Russell Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Love Memoir
Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past. — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“They were the only three people I'd chosen on my own to love, and they were gone. But still, that morning in Mobay when… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
