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My story begins with a question. — Alexandra Bogdanovic

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life. — Jeffrey Rasley

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up. — Anna White

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom

A memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life. — Richard Hell

To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world — Yolanda De Iuliis

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century — Max Beerbohm

If you want self-esteem." "Do estimable acts" ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir — Cupcake Brown

I was the problem and the solution. — Abby Norman

Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them! — Gail Kittleson

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form. — Lauren Slater

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? — Slash Coleman

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. — M.C. Halliday

The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I am. — Cara Lopez Lee

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life. — Anna White

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust. — Anna White

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries. — Anna White

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do. — Conor Oberst

I began to lust after our conjoining life. — Aspen Matis

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell

This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end. — Richard Glover

life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir — Danielle Steel

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes. — Aleksandar Hemon

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. — Marya Hornbacher

Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement. — Maria Waters

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. — Stephanie Klein

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. — Dorothy Gallagher

Tomorrow is promised to no one so live your life fully everyday. — Therese Crutcher-Marin

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. — Lori Lesko

If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin. — Magda Szubanski

In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen. — Greg McVicker

Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life. — Fern Schumer Chapman

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame
I'd make a really cute animated creature. — Kate Bornstein

Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire. — Gillian Marchenko

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes. — Mark Fiore

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable. — Gerry Abbey

Pain engraves a deeper memory. — Anne Sexton

If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination. — Tom Robbins

There's nothing gay about living life straight — Paul B. Tripp

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir. — Elizabeth Gilbert

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can't drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. — Andre Dubus III

It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled. — Daisy Hernandez

Live life carefully but save time for fun. — Cindy Lou Moldovan

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it. — Jeannette Walls

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. — Shirley Jackson

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. — Marilyn Sewell

Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons. — Benay Nordby

It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism — Charmaine Smith Ladd

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be. — Tadeusz Pankiewicz

The shape of your life depends upon whether you choose to be the sculptor or the clay. — Pamela M. Covington

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew. — Anna White

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child — Julia Child

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad. — Alexandra Bogdanovic

Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living. — Anna White

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift.
How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true? — Anna White

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 it together again. — Koren Zailckas

Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind. — Kilroy J. Oldster

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking. — Gerry Abbey

Memoirists collect experiences in an attempt to capture the fluttery thing we call life.
---from Blog-"Readers, Writers and Pumpkin Pie — Peggy Barnes

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death. — Craig Briggs