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• I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Brother, Love Life

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• The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

  Donald Miller

  Writing, Reason

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• Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

  George Meredith

  Men, Literature, Ends

  George Meredith (1894). “Lord Ormont and His Aminta (Complete)”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

  Nick Earls

  Real, Writing, Magazines

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.

  Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

  Book, Taken, Court Judges

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• In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, History, Greek

  Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.60, Princeton University Press

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• A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

  Steve Martin

  Self, Advice, Anecdotes

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• I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

  Deborah Copaken

  War, Book, Nbc

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• Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Race, Humanity, Mind

  Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff (2010). “Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

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• Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.

  Craig Kilborn

  Sleep, Personality, Shining

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• Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

  Tom Rachman

  Book, Reading, Meditation

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• Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

  Arthur Golden

  Writing, Simple, Men

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• For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.

  Philip Gambone

  Book, Garden, Years

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• No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

  Arthur Golden

  Wells, Knows

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• I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Book, Self

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• I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.

  Hilary Liftin

  Book, Journey, Thinking

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Girl, Rocks, Years

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• A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

  Arthur Golden

  Records, World

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• We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Talking, Age

  2000 Experience.

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• I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

  Hilary Liftin

  Thinking, Genre Is, Sound

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Memories, Perspective, Wanted

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Interesting, Life Is, Enough

  "Our interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love". Interview with Natalia Hawk, www.mamamia.com.au. September 30, 2013.

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• 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. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Winning, Tvs

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Emotional, Issues

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