#memoir

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and snarls and reels of Bible. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ideas #memoir #memory #religion #religion

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. ↗

— Jeffrey Rasley

#expeditions #himalayas #memoir #mountaineering #mountains

People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#truth #biography

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. ↗

— Stephen King

#instruction-book #memoir #on-writing #writing-craft

An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read! ↗

— Maggie Reese

#bipolar-disorder #blog #blogger #depression #insomnia

I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get up and walk around, eat ice cream, let ideas percolate, forget the story for a time, and then return to the page. Even the muse needs a vacation to rest up before she gives more of herself. ↗

— Jan Marquart

#write #write-to-heal #writers-block

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition. ↗

— Guy Sajer

#third-reich #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them. ↗

— Kirby Wright

#memoir #molokai #age

This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed. ↗

— Lavinia Greenlaw

#change