Memoir Quotes
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My story begins with a question.
— Alexandra Bogdanovic
Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
— Kelly Corrigan
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
— Tayari Jones
Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer.
— Michael Lewis
I do like a bit of flyin'. Comedy flying is one of my favourite things. I think it rates up there with a neck brace for funniness.
— Jennifer Saunders
Men ought to be a four-letter word! Menn!
— Becky Lewellen Povich
Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.
— Various Attributed Sources
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."
— Kate Zambreno
Chris didn't need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.
— Michelle Tackabery
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Courage is just dreams with shoes on.
— Reba Riley
The bassist -- always the bassist.
— Rob Sheffield
There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.
— Shuly Xochitl Cawood
Those who live in memories are never really dead.
— Kate Morton
It's the devil's nectar. It's filthy and unhealthy. -Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, referring to coffee (1995)
— Eugene Wells
The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.
— Dimitra Ekmektsis
Walk your own path and be yourself
— Joanne Nussbaum
Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.
— Ralph Webster
I didn't know if I was brave or reckless.
— Aspen Matis
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.
— Cheryl Strayed
We aren't afraid of what we can explain.
— Aspen Matis
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
— Alexei Sayle
Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me.
— Charlotte Smith
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
Pittsburgh did not smell of mayonnaise that day.
— Sandra Staas
Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies.
— Rabih Alameddine
I wear the word victim like a badge of honor - my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.
— Mary E. DeMuth
Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.
— Jane Davenport Platko
The memoir-novel dumbed down fiction and traduced
— John Irving
To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.
— Steve Martin
Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.
— Jane Alison
The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.
— Julia Child
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
— Emma Donoghue
If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.
— Patricia Amis
Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.
— Lauren Slater
The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.
— Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction.
— Aspen Matis
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
— Kate Zambreno
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
The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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
I have a severe case of invisibility-plus-impulsive-behavior that I am calling, for the purposes of this memoir, Xamnesia. It
— Lizzie Harwood
Alchemy of the Afterlife A Memoir Linda Kinnamon, RN Flatirons Press
— Linda Kinnamon
God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it ...
— Deborah L. Parker
I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin
— Frank McCourt
I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.
— Alice McDermott
Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album.
— Aspen Matis
I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us.
— Penelope Lively
I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.
— Georgann Low
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[V]alue your dreams but ... be wary of them also, ... look for integrity in unusual places.
— Azar Nafisi
And there's nothing more dangerous than a written memoir.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
There's nothing gay about living life straight
— Paul B. Tripp
What if your Vision Board came true?
— Juliette Power
An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
— Maggie Reese
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.
— Martha Barron Barrett
The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.
— Chris Thrall
Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.
— Stacy Schiff
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
— Temple Emmet Williams
His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.
— Augusten Burroughs
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
— Julia Child
Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.
— Rick Barnett
A lot of men tend to want "models"I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one. — Trisha Ventker
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
— Shirley Jackson
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
This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives.
— Brooke Hayward
Sometimes you don't get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.
— Gavin MacLeod
I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.
— Lina Rehal
Live life carefully but save time for fun.
— Cindy Lou Moldovan
If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.
— Baby Halder
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
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
— William Least Heat-Moon