Isabel Allende

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Chilean Writer

James Frey

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

American Writer

Zawe Ashton

If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has elements of truth and elements of fiction sitting side by side.

English Actress

Jeannette Walls

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

Koren Zailckas

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

Isabel Gillies

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.

American Actress

Jane Fonda

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

Gore Vidal

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

American Novelist

Greil Marcus

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

American Author

Elie Wiesel

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

A memoir often contains emotional stories and personal reflections, not just facts.

Personal Narrative

Memoirs are subjective, emphasizing the author's own experiences and opinions.

Authors Perspective

While covering one's life, memoirs usually focus on a specific aspect or period.

Specific Focus

In academic or professional contexts, a memoir records detailed historical information.

Formal Record

Unlike personal memoirs, academic memoirs aim for objectivity and factual reporting.

Objective Report

Historically, a legal memoir was a formal piece of written evidence.

Legal Evidence

In legal contexts, 'memoir' is an old-fashioned term and not commonly used now.

Dated Term

 darkest days of the war his story would be told so as for that second sphere not of work but of love encompassing family friends and colleagues it too takes work and commitment the Lyndon Johnson that I saw in the last years of his life when I helped him on his memoirs was a man who

Learning from past...

 and journalism and memoirs and realistic fiction and travel and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as subhuman, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life,

The surprising decline...

 Truth was confident God would protect her, but some crowds responded to her bravery with violence. During one of her sermons, a mob of white men threatened to set fire to the tent where she was speaking. In her memoir, Truth recalled steeling herself to confront

The electrifying...

 to study at university, and write memoirs, fiction and philosophy. But the risks she was taking by embracing this lifestyle were lost on many of her male counterparts, who took these freedoms for granted. They had no intellectual interest in de Beauvoir’s work,

The meaning of life...

 the same documentaries, the same music. Music was a huge part of our life together. And we shared the same values. We were in love, and our love grew stronger up until her last day. Amy was a prolific author. In addition to two groundbreaking memoirs,

The journey through loss...

 There was a burning question though that would not leave me. And that was, "How did this happen to me?" And in fact, what did happen to my brain? Because something did. And so I decided to write a book, a memoir, about this decade of my life.

How cults rewire the...

 the world in code it's ironic i mean it's ironic but that hasn't stopped him from publishing a new memoir titled a man of the world to compose it he enlarged the font big enough on his computer so he could make

A Man of the World PIPE...

 The main editor guy sat me down and talked to me for a long time, trying to convince me I had a book in me about my life as a swimmer. You know, like a memoir. The whole time he was talking to me,

The beauty of being a...

 or memoir from every country in the world. And so I did. And it was very exciting and I learned some remarkable things and made some wonderful connections that I want to share with you today.

My year reading a book...

 recently published my first book a memoir entitled form brights a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America the book is deeply personal after some thoughts I decided to