Quotes About Memoirs

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Marcus de Obregón is appealing and, yes, instructive, but is not entirely successful because the author often forgot he was writing a novel, not his memoirs.

Food played a major role in the lives of both Ruth Reichl (longtime New York Times restaurant critic and editor-in-chief of Gourmet, who wrote about her lifelong interest in food in two memoirs, the best of which is the first, Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table) and Patricia Volk (who wrote about her life in Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family).

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

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.

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

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

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

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

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.

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

I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.

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.

At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.

Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.

As I have begun to write my memoirs, I have begun with my childhood; memories which were hidden, suddenly appear before you, finding expression through my writing.

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.