Boundaries Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I…

— Michelle Zauner

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

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once…

— Rossandra White

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

Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and…

— Sue Perkins

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

— Donald Miller

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

— Koren Zailckas

I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

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

— Rohan Marley

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

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie