Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory. " We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress
Who. . . is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases?. . . from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5. ' The evil spirit v vanishes; and. . . that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic. . . One result after another follows in quick succession till at last. . . we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.
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.
I will leave no memoirs.
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion. . . it was much more graceful and contained than that.
The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.
