Memoir Quote by Tracy Kidder

“No matter how self-aware you are, memoir wrenches at your insides precisely because it makes you battle with your very self – your neat…

— Mary Karr

“Says I to myself” should be the motto of my journal. It is fatal to the writer to be too much possessed by his…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“That’s why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that’s the greatest habit we have to break—thinking, feeling, and…

— Joe Dispenza

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe…

— Anonymous

“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey

“The mind is capable of amazing feats of self-deception in order to keep its fragile ego intact. My”

— Nat Kozinn

“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's…

— Phillip Lopate

“I find that the writing of a memoir has two functions. One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to tell, the…

— Neil Simon

“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad others, when…

— Stephen Batchelor

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn