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Memoir Quotes

I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end.

Beauty Hope End Want Halfway Memoir

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

Robert Gottlieb

Great Nonfiction Memoir Who Those

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

Me Writing Tell Memoir Very Had

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Augusten Burroughs

Be True Want True Memoir Writer

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

Life Experience Person Memoir Some

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

Life Political Career Memoir His

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

Book Well Memoir Only Written

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Writing Memoir Would Disappearing

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Mind Interesting You Write Memoir

What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?

Time Better Write Big Memoir Than

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

Gray Gray Area Memoir Books Between

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

You Say Will Honest Truthful Memoir

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

Think More Fiction Honest Memoir

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

Truth Writing You Memoir Easier

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

Writing Reason Because Memoir Like

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

Arthur Phillips

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

Bad Fiction Rap Get Memoir Moms

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

David Herbert Donald

Story Mystery Will Write Memoir

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.

Truth Lie Want Fiction Catch Memoir

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

Myself Think Know Being Memoir Just

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

Architecture I Am Exhausted Memoir

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

Alice McDermott

Run Risk Memoir Many Drawn

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Fiction Memoir Novel Wrote

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

You True Everything Something Memoir

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