Memoir Quotes

“Memoir is a tricky genre. You have to be honest, but you also have to be entertaining.”

“My story is a story of a girl who had a lot of success early on and then had to deal with the pressures that come with that.”

“I felt like it was time. I've been holding this in for a long time. It was a story that needed to be told.”

“I did not tell the truth about my sexuality and I wrote a book that was a lie.”

“Part of what I was doing in 'Paying for It' was trying to think through the question of whether it's okay to pay for sex.”

“There is never a shortage of memoirs in the lives of public men. The difficulty is, rather, to make them interesting.”

“I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. It's just that the spoon was plastic and it said 'Property of the hospital cafeteria.'”

“I wrote my book, 'I Blame Dennis Hopper,' as a love letter to the movies and the people who make them.”

“I felt that I was a spy in the house of my own life.”

“Writing 'Guts' was the hardest thing I've ever done. It was also the most rewarding.”

“I think we all have a story to tell. And I think we all have a right to tell our story.”

“I stood at the podium in the White House and misled the press and the American people.”

“What I found inside the White House was a culture of deception.”

“It was a story of how a presidency that began with such promise and high ideals went so wrong.”

“The most powerful leader in the world had called me by my first name.”

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while.”

“Such is the story of my experience, and my escape from the Black Nunnery of Montreal.”

“I have given a narrative of events which I have witnessed, and in which I was a participator.”

“The memoir is a form that is particularly susceptible to untruth.”

“We were very protected at MGM. Louis B. Mayer was like a father to all of us.”