Done Quote by Will Rogers

“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral thing I've…

— Piper Kerman

“Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.”

— Terry Nardin

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

— George Meredith

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

— Greil Marcus

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess…

— Jennifer Egan

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

— Damian Barr

Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it…

— Carol Drinkwater

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

— Jen Lancaster

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

— John Major

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

— Karl Lagerfeld

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

— George Eliot