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Memoir Quotes

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

Shirley Jackson

Life Children Memoir Disrespectful

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

Christopher Buckley

Enough House White Memoir Adventures

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

Peter Serafinowicz

Good Memory Think Memoir Would Very

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

Tree Wood Memoir Also

I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's 'Just Kids' are both incredible.

Music Great Best Memoir Just Kids

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

Boring Never Write Because Memoir

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

Truth Lie Know More Tell Memoir

The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

Christopher Buckley

House White First Mess Out Memoir

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

Write Sure Memoir Would Ever

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

Truth Well Memoir Anywhere Read

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Write Because Fever Memoir Thing

It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.

Best War Thought Understand Memoir

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Thought More Write Pleasant Memoir

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Connection Emotional Memoir Some

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Tree Brooklyn Memoir Would Like

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

Life Me Representation Memoir Your

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Situation Places Always Memoir Most

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Person Privacy Invitation Memoir

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

Truth Matter Tell Contract Memoir

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

Write Painful Memoir Would Knew

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

Life Stars Write Get Memoir Movie

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

Work Feel You Alive Memoir Almost

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

Richard Flanagan

Failure Father Memoir Would Novel

The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

Good Book Measure Early Used Memoir

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