Quotes About Memoir

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What is the difference between fiction and memoir, really? I mean, isn't there a bit of autobiography in every novel? And isn't there a bit of fiction in every memoir? Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?

she approached her memoir with a renewed sense of resolve. A rapprochement was what was needed. An unfinished book, left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will, and ruthless determination to tame it again. She kicked the cat off her chair

This is one of my difficulties now... my fear that Mom will find this memoir about her angry. Another difficulty is the fact that the story of my mother and me is unfolding even as I write it.

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

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

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

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

In his official memoir, he notes with satisfaction that he spent 600 million sesterces on land bought in Italy for his veterans

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

Under Magnolia is much more than an entrancing memoir: it is a work of art that defies the distinction between prose and poetry or novels and autobiographies. It is also much more than a personal narrative: it is an unflinching meditation on the relation between self and culture, and, more specifically, on the gravitational pull of memory. This is a book to be savored, a feast for both mind and soul.

I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made public.

I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' About a third of the way through, I suddenly, finally caught up to the fact that Shirer had been there in Berlin, from 1934 on, and was finally kicked out when the U.S. entered the war.

Ada Deer's recent memoir, Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice

captures this poignancy in his memoir, which was published in 1942. He called it The Happiest Man. After numerous chapters brimming with optimism and cheer, the book ends with the sobering reality of Nazi-dominated Europe. Had The Happiest Man been published in 1945, when the

her 1935 memoir of life in Gilded Age New York, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, Bessie

By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling the void with a husband like Hiram, a treasure rich and undeserved. Having read his insufferable memoir, A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, all I can say is: I'm happy for her?

I should have written that down. - Dilbert

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.