Quotes About Memoir

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

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

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.

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

Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.

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

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

To put it squarely, as I say in my memoir, the eternal triangle has come full circle.

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 that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and just getting to the story.

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.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

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.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

When you write a memoir, and it's your life, and you're exposing things that are close to home, it's hard to see it changed.

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

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