#memoir

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #memoir




A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.


William J. Clinton


#hope #i #interesting #lot #memoirs

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.


David Herbert Donald


#i #maybe #memoir #mystery #perhaps

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.


Darin Strauss


#family

You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.


Abigail Thomas


#memoir #death

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.


Manuel Puig


#after #days #directing #fantasy #i

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.


Baby Halder


#bengali #india #memoir #women #women-writers

Although my understanding of exactly how much trouble I was in grew more specific over time, as a child I surely understood enough about my condition to know it was something I'd better keep private. By intuition I was certain that the thing I knew to be true was something others would find both impossible and hilarious. My conviction, by the way, had nothing to do with a desire to be feminine, but it had everything to do with being female. Which is an odd believe for a person born male. It certainly had nothing to do with whether I was attracted to girls or boys. This last point was the one that, years later, would most frequently elude people, including the overeducated smarty-pants who constituted much of my inner circle. But being gay or lesbian is about sexual orientation. Being transgedered is about identity.


Jennifer Finney Boylan


#memoir #trans #life

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.


Amos Oz


#love

All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having to read them- that there were people in the world more desperate, more self-absorbed, more boring than I was. - about memoirs


Brock Clarke


#england

You have to get lost before you can be found.


Jeff Rasley


#biography #charity #himalayas #memoir #mountaineering