In my memoir, I
In my memoir, I admit that I’ve been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when ‘Passages’ was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. Gail Sheehy
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In my memoir, I admit that I’ve been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when ‘Passages’ was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. Gail Sheehy
Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on it as it was happening. This was gratifying to me. Gabrielle Bell
It [the memoir In The Body of the World] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt … Read more
We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory. Eugene Ionesco
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd. Erik Larson
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. Emma Donoghue
Unless your aim is to deceive, there’s not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They’re marketing categories. Emily Gould
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do. Elliott Colla
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now–LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir. Elizabeth Wurtzel
You write fiction, you’re writing memoir, and when you’re writing memoir, you’re writing fiction. Elizabeth Gilbert