Honest Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Honest Ifs Memoir Trying Writing
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more. — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions? — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody. — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
