Authenticity Quote by Steven Pressfield

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little…

— Anne Lamott

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

— Brett Davern

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

— Oscar Wilde

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels, if I…

— Carol Drinkwater

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just…

— Gary Shteyngart

The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties…

— Augusten Burroughs

Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness…

— Sara Nelson

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think,…

— Annette Bening

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