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Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be. — John Conrad

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary. — John Early

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention ... — Wallace Stegner

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist. — Tracy Kidder

Wilds whisper, yet I long for their roar. — Gin Getz

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

I live my memoirs, I don't have to write them down. — Karl Lagerfeld

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats — Vicki Alayne Bradley

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

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. — Martin Amis

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die
maybe. — Steve Earle

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

Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement. — Mary Jane Walker

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

How many pages will it take to tell your story? — Ashly Lorenzana

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

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

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them ... — Christina Baldwin

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. — Rick Moody

I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs. I think I have. — Pauline Kael

Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing. — Andrew Rosenthal

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

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

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy. — Donald Miller

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television. — Caitlin Doughty

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. — Stephen King

Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers. — Maureen Murdock

Pain engraves a deeper memory. — Anne Sexton

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing — Temple Emmet Williams

An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read! — Maggie Reese

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

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

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

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism. — Bill Ayers

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom

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

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult. — Darin Strauss

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world. — Gerry Abbey

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer! — Gerry Abbey

Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public. — John Green

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

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects. — Will Rogers

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

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand. — Christopher Isherwood

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving. — Shannon L. Alder

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority). — Gore Vidal