Delusion Quote by Sherman Alexie

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

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting…

— Koren Zailckas

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately…

— Richard Hell

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

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

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just…

— Gary Shteyngart

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 idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

— Rohan Marley

I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I made a…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

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