Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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.
I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's relationships with books. Like anything else, these can be good or bad. The genre doesn't make it good or bad, it's the execution.
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what the memoir form demands. I also had to figure out how much of the truth do I tell, how do I make the truth as balanced as I possibly can? How do I make these people as complicated and as human and as unique and as multifaceted as I possibly can? For me, that was the way I attempted to counteract some of that criticism.
I will leave no memoirs.
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles.
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.
Much more than memoir; it's history.
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.