Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. Votes: 4
Mary KarrTrue memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world Votes: 3
Patricia HamplAnyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. Votes: 2
David Ben-GurionThere ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs Votes: 2
Will RogersWriting a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. Votes: 2
Steve BisleyAnd now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. Votes: 2
Cheryl StrayedI've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. Votes: 2
Gloria SwansonIntimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do. Votes: 2
Sierra D. WatersI've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. Votes: 2
Gore VidalAn intensely gripping narrativeexpertly crafted and totally addictivea must read! Votes: 1
Maggie ReeseEnjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas AbrahamExpress yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment Live the life. Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas AbrahamExpress yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life. Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas AbrahamI am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate. Votes: 1
Sonali DeraniyagalaHumor writers:1) Write2) Laugh3) Laugh when they write4) Write when they laugh Votes: 1
Ann K. HowleyBut instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness. Votes: 1
Terri CheneyMemory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. Votes: 1
William Least Heat-MoonSometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire. Votes: 1
Gillian MarchenkoI felt ridiculously self-conscious, like the stick of celery at a luxurious buffet. Votes: 1
Fran MacilveyStories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward. Votes: 1
Nina SankovitchThe ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them Votes: 1
Christina BaldwinHow deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. Votes: 1
Thomas Merton The Seven Storey MountainWe cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism Votes: 1
Charmaine Smith LaddWhen you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world. Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas AbrahamYou suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake. Votes: 1
Michael J. FoxI came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. Votes: 1
Flannery O'ConnorSuccess is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. Votes: 1
Various attributed sourcesMary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliantShe is a fabulous actress. She can do anything. Votes: 1
Gavin MacLeodMy malady was submission.The symptom: my compliance.The antidote was loud clear boundaries. Votes: 1
Aspen MatisI'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes. Votes: 1
Mark Fioretethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.the window rosy with anemic November light. Votes: 1
Lauren SlaterThe memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze. Votes: 1
Dimitra EkmektsisThis is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed. Votes: 1
Lavinia GreenlawThe world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people. Votes: 1
Greg GarrettA vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed. Votes: 1
Lizelle DuPlessisIndie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. Votes: 1
Temple Emmet WilliamsMurphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.) Votes: 1
Saloma Miller FurlongI wanted to come close to fierce wild things. They seemed prehistoric, rare and sacred. Votes: 1
Aspen Matisthe clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses. Votes: 1
Lauren SlaterThe writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Votes: 1
Dorothy GallagherI never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language. Votes: 1
Lauren SlaterA memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. Votes: 1
Arthur Golden[V]alue your dreams but be wary of them also, look for integrity in unusual places. Votes: 1
Azar NafisiWho thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? Votes: 1
Slash ColemanBut you have to rememberthat you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you. Votes: 1
Karen WheelerI put a positive spin on a difficult childhood in my 10 essays. Available on Amazon.com. Votes: 1
Helen LevinIn the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored. Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas AbrahamInstead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you. Votes: 1
Shannon LoveSometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. Votes: 1
Frances MayesIt was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable. Votes: 1
Gerry AbbeyMemory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life. Votes: 1
Fern Schumer ChapmanThe PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it. Votes: 1
Aspen MatisThere was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes Votes: 1
Aspen MatisThe whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats Votes: 1
Vicki Alayne BradleyEach day has the potential of being your best day. You decide what each day will bring. Votes: 1
Paige RawlWhy does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life? Votes: 1
Slash ColemanI write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. Votes: 1
Anne SchroederThis is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end. Votes: 1
Richard GloverIt was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying. Votes: 1
Aspen MatisIt is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today. Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas AbrahamEvery time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time. Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas AbrahamTo tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside outSara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out Votes: 1
Sara NilesIf you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin. Votes: 1
Magda SzubanskiIt is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust. Votes: 1
Anna WhiteNot everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be. Votes: 1
Tadeusz PankiewiczNo matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. Votes: 1
Adeline Yen MahStanding in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass. Votes: 1
Mary KarrAsk not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you, but rather what YOU can do for your Joe Montaperto. Votes: 1
Joe MontapertoThis is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life. Votes: 1
Anna WhiteI sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen. Votes: 1
Aspen MatisThe purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I am. Votes: 1
Cara Lopez LeeI don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. Votes: 1
Lori LeskoBush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles.
Craig FergusonA Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.
Tony BlankleyI could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.
Caitlin MoranYou write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.
Elizabeth GilbertThe memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."
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