The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
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 live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
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.
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd shake up the mix considerably. And about the same time that the memoir was becoming the dominant popular literary form in the mid to late 90s, I started reading writers who were deliberately playing with the notion of "truth" and "fiction" - that struck me as a much more interesting way to tell certain stories, particularly in the realm of comedy.
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.
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.
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.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning. " Memoir From Antproof Case
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.