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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
Rachel Cusk
Tags: Me Life Many
I tell people, 'You can do this.' And they write back and say, 'You were right. I can do this. And now I believe I can do anything.'
Bob Ross
Tags: You People Were
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
Armistead Maupin
Tags: Truth You Get
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
Harlan Coben
Tags: Good You Get
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.
Isabel Allende
People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.
Christophe de Margerie
Tags: Car People Where
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
Andrea Mitchell
Tags: Get Being Much
You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
L'Wren Scott
Tags: You Them Now
I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, 'OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles.' Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be - you know what I mean?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Tags: Romantic You More
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
Brian Wilson
Tags: You Because Get
I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'
Matthew Quick
Tags: Good About Up
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.
Isabel Allende
Tags: Tell Sense Form
I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.
Bill Richardson
Tags: You Think Get
I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.
Mike Birbiglia
Tags: Like Just Who
I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma Bombeck
Tags: Courage Me Get
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
Julia Cameron
Tags: Home Just Down
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
Noel Coward
Tags: Me Got May
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
Peter Carey
Tags: Courage Me About
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.


Clarence Darrow
Tags: Hope Will Where
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.


Aimee Mann