quotes about Memoir
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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
-- Alexei Sayle -
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
-- Arthur Golden -
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
-- Arthur Golden -
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
-- Brett Davern -
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
-- Carol Tavris -
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
-- Elie Wiesel -
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
-- John Major -
I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
-- Karrine Steffans -
Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
-- Mary KarrSource : "The Liars' Club: A Memoir". Book by Mary Karr, 1995.
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
-- Mitch Albom -
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
-- Pauline Kael -
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
-- Rebecca Wells -
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
-- Sally Ride -
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.
-- Spencer W. Kimball -
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.
-- Tony Blankley -
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.
-- Debra MonroeSource : Source: therumpus.net
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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 BellSource : Source: therumpus.net
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There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things in boxes: "This is a memoir about a Muslim," or "This is a memoir about a woman or a normal personal." There's a certain story that assumes to be universal. Everyone else is ethnic fiction. Anyone can aspire to universality.
-- Haroon Moghul -
I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.
-- Kate ZambrenoSource : Source: therumpus.net
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I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.
-- Lourdes Portillo -
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I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and all that chronological 'and then this happened and then blah blah' doesn't appeal to me that much. I think there's more mystique in what you don't know about.
-- Russell Mael -
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
-- Akhil SharmaSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.
-- Rosemary Mahoney -
A lot of my songs are very personal, always, but this one felt like a memoir. I almost called it Hallucinated Memoir. "Granny" is a hallucinated memoir. It's straight-up symbolism for my life, in many ways.
-- Vic ChesnuttSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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