Quotes About Memoirists

The best memoirists stress the subjective nature of reportage. Doubt and wonder come to stand as part of the story.

Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers.