Books Quote by Sheila Heti

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

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

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

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

— Emily Gould

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and…

— Paul Auster

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story,…

— Salman Rushdie

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If…

— Elif Batuman

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

— Danielle Trussoni