Accounts Quote by Salman Rushdie

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

— Richard Hell

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

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus…

— Danielle Trussoni

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

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti

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

— Richard Hell

This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good…

— Dani Shapiro

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity…

— Graham Greene

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end…

— Alberto Moravia

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

— Roald Dahl

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

— J. M. Coetzee

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould