#memoir

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

#came #distinguished #down #enough #flooding

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#i #memoir #novelist #only #well

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#aspects #being #careful #challenging #else

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#book #diaries #door #going #happens

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#believes #change #his #history #memoirs

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. ↗

— David Halberstam

#book #driving #easier #get #marketing

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction. ↗

— Frank Harris

#form #memoirs #well-known

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. ↗

— Stephanie Klein

#life #memoir #truth #humor