#memoir

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In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.


Oscar Wilde


#love

Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and find the hidden places. Her written words, discovered, read were just the source of more pain and punishment. This was why she loved poetry. They did not always understand it so they left it alone.


Bell Hooks


#memoir #poetry #writing #love

Sometimes I feel she hasn't left...especially when I wear the photo charm necklace with her picture in it. I can't tell you how many young men have stared into that picture and the reaction is always the same: a slow beam rises across their faces and they want to know all about her. They become entranced the way Dana Andrews did when he first saw Gene Tierney's portrait in "Laura." I know Maria finds all of this quite amusing; why shouldn't she? 'Laura' is her middle name.


Pamela Palmer Mutino


#memoir #men

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.


Salman Rushdie


#history-religion-terrorism #literary #memoir #religion

I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Will Landsman


Gabrielle Zevin


#comedy #head #memoirs-of-a-teenage-amnesiac #spontaneous #comedy

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.


Arthur Golden


#fiction #geisha #japan #memoirs #japan

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.


Stephen King


#self-doubt #stephen-king #writing #writing-craft

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.


Isabel Allende


#aware #better #conveyed #even #fiction

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.


Mitch Albom


#influence #inspiring #life #life story #memoir