Actor Quote by Zawe Ashton

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

— Hilary Liftin

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're…

— Samuel Hynes

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

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

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

— Elie Wiesel

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

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

— Chris Bohjalian

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many…

— Julia Glass

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne