#memoir

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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.


Anthony Powell


#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.


Armistead Maupin


#claiming #distrusted #easier #fiction #get

Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as the writer is a woman who was once a whore and is moderately wealthy in her old age.


Roberto Bolaño


#memoir #age

You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.


Marjane Satrapi


#memoir #young_adult #humor

I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.


Jaycee Dugard


#life

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.


Arthur Golden


#memoirs #life

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.


Anne Lamott


#child #childhood #encouragement #memoir #memories

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.


Koren Zailckas


#emotions #families #family #family-therapy #memoir

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.


Elizabeth Wurtzel


#memoir #love

When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.


Jo Treggiari


#fierce-ink-press #memoir #love