Memoir Quotes

You can't write your memoirs at halftime. - James McKean

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. - David Halberstam

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. - Augusten Burroughs

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs. - Will Rogers

What readers will discover in this moving memoir is that no one is immune from the pain of loneliness, abandonment, divorce and all of the losses and challenges we each face in our lives. - Judith Regan

What I have always believed in 40 years of experience in the book publishing industry is that you can do what you want as a writer as long as you tell the reader what you are doing. Art is about honesty. My objection is not the use of memoir as literature it certainly can be. My objection is to the lack of honesty. - Peter Osnos

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. - Carly Fiorina

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh. - Andy Hertzfeld

To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself. - Marshal Petain