Quotes About Writing

I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.

As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

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

Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.

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

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

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

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

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

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

I did the first proofreading of 'A Brief History of Time,' and when it came to writing my memoir, I consulted many scientific friends so that, contrary to what many critics supposed and were churlish enough to voice, I did actually write the scientific sections myself.

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.

Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really say I was a writer even after my first memoir.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

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

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.

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

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested in.