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When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. — Gabrielle Zevin

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. — Calvin Trillin

Let's pursue the visage of imagination — Munia Khan

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs. — Will Rogers

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. — Sally Ride

I'll never put my memoirs in print. — Ian McKellen

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest. — Robert Gottlieb

Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories — Eileen Granfors

Lightning hides the colour of night — Munia Khan

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 do fiction. — Gary Shteyngart

I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head. — Isabel Gillies

There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young. — Shuly Xochitl Cawood

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels. — Paul Auster

If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers. — Sahara Sanders

The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze. — Dimitra Ekmektsis

It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess. — Julie Klam

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end. — George Meredith

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

I was born in the house my father built. — Richard M. Nixon

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. — Arthur Golden

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction. — Frank Harris

Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation. — Mary Karr

If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with. — James L. Cambias

What draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way. — Lisa Cron

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description) — Jeannette Walls

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs. — Vivian Gornick

I knew that I had to write my memoirs. — Jane Fonda

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low. — David Lagercrantz

I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse," because it was. — Savannah Grace

Not for nothing, but if you do that again, I'm gonna have to punch ya fuckin' heart out! — Cyndi Lauper

Speaking professionally, it was admirably done."
-John H. Watson-
-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes- — Arthur Conan Doyle

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough. — Walter Isaacson

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers

My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The — Shashi Tharoor

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. — Pierre Trudeau

He moved with the sound of pockets full of change and I knew my life would never be the same."- Anastasia from Master of the Universe Memoirs Book One — Anastasia Lily

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis

You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know. — Gabrielle Zevin

It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise. — Nathan Hill

MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES — Arthur Conan Doyle

Love hurts because it holds hearts — Munia Khan

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon. — Kate Zambreno

That's not me.That's my duality! — Munia Khan

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. — Tom Robbins

Memoirs are the backstairs of history. — George Meredith

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels. — Gerald Clarke

Having to admit that you are depressed makes one feel less than. Broken. Yes, that's what it is. Broken. — Gillian Marchenko

California, still a magical vanity fair. — Eileen Granfors

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer. — Piper Kerman

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters. — Patrick O'Brian

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it. — Woody Allen

to do with Lottie's final wishes for her memoirs. With the help of Millie and Henry, Fran and — Meredith Kennon

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Dick Winters

Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves. — Stavro Nashi

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

Moments give birth to new memories — Munia Khan

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. — David Ben-Gurion

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett

I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood — Constance Savery

Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun. — Ishmael Beah

But who has time to write memoirs? I'm still living my memoirs. — Rebecca Wells

I am afraid I have never exist. — Amadeus Casaubon Garamond

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.] — James Vescovi

Wine o'clock was getting earlier every night — Jill Pennington

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig

I will leave no memoirs. — Comte De Lautreamont

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break. — Michael Hastings

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn

The man is always the last to know when
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin. — Mary Karr

these memoirs would never have appeared; or, — Charles Dickens

I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell. — Rebekah Armusik

What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person. — Donna Brown

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All good things spring from Self-Love — N. Sophronia Crosby

Each tear longs to kiss sorrow — Munia Khan

A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices. — Travis McDade

When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching. — Karrine Steffans

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic. — Wendy Aron

It's hard to be an articulate ghost. — Mary Karr

Not every wall needs a ceiling — Munia Khan

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. — John Major

But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go. — Mary Karr

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot. — Stephen Hunter

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead. — Mary Karr

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

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222) — Gabrielle Zevin

Tattoos made my skin more 'me.' -Melissa Maxwell — Larry Smith

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general. — Brett Davern

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it — Arthur Golden

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live — Rachele Baker