#memoir

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

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

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

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

Memoirs are the backstairs of history. ↗

— George Meredith

#memoirs

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

— Lavinia Greenlaw

#change

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #had #her #his #i

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#court #court tv #day #end #everything

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#already #england #listen #memoirs #people

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#between #books #calls #gray #gray area