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" A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. "
Isabel Allende
" A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. "
Richard Hell
" A tree's wood is also its memoir. "
Hope Jahren
" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "
Elliott Abrams
" Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction. "
Arthur Phillips
" For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. "
Sheila Heti
" Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. "
Leslie Fiedler
" I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. "
David Shields
" I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either! "
Peter Serafinowicz
" If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' "
Annie Golden
" If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true. "
David Benioff
" I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. "
Mitch Albom
" I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir. "
Susan Ford
" I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's a journalistic enterprise, ultimately, even if you are using the memoir as a form. "
Lawrence Osborne
" I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir. "
Akhil Sharma
" I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. "
Sandra Cisneros
" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "
Gore Vidal
" I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. "
Elie Wiesel
" I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring. "
Harlan Coben
" I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. "
Jami Attenberg
" Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. "
Shirley Jackson
" Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. "
David Herbert Donald
" Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap. "
Kelly Corrigan
" Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir. "
Michael Korda
" One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. "
Robert Gottlieb
" 'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir. "
Emily Giffin
" The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure. "
Elliott Abrams
" The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir. "
Nick Hornby
" The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. "
Mary Karr
" The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more. "
Rohan Marley
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