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

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.

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

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

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.

'Working Class Man' is my second memoir and is a continuation of my story from where 'Working Class Boy' left off. The book is really an attempt at explaining the impact of my childhood on myself and the ones I loved as an adult.

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 always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I've never shared openly.

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.

and the University of Pennsylvania, he penned a memoir of his time in America. Shortly after marrying the twenty-eight-year-old Marie Brigitte Plunkett

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

Adopt a Brownie Troop. Memoir classes. Field trips and blood drives.

In seiner Autobiographie 'Als wär's ein Stück von mir' hat Carl Zuckmayer die Menschen und ihre Landschaft hoch im Norden der USA geschildert, hat er seinen Alltag als Farmer in den Jahren 1941 bis 1946 noch einmal wachgerufen.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.