#memoir

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

— Stephanie Klein

#life #memoir #truth #humor

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#interesting #keep #memoir #mind #necessarily

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #incapable #me #memoir #publisher

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#animals #inspiring #memoir #pet #philosophy

Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 volt sexual charisma that beckons me like a fluff girl on scuffed knees. ↗

— Brett Tate

#funny #humor #humour #memoir #sex

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#before #definitely #i #memoir #read

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#collection #effects #father #finished #holiday

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism. Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. ↗

— Alistair Urquhart

#memoir #military-history #world-war-ii #death

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

#causes #caution #channels #memoirs #much