Accounts Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much…

— Russell Freedman

I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think,…

— Faith Adiele

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.”

— Gavin MacLeod

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

“A person’s life is a bounded thing that must end. We will leave this earth with unfinished business. Regardless of the outcome of this…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which…

— Paul Auster

“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and personal capacity…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.”

— Rick Barnett

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster