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A tree's wood is also its memoir.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.
Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.
Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
Writing your memoir is inherently narcissistic.
I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'
I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.
The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.
I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.
Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.
Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles.
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.
I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.
I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.