Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Honesty scares quite a lot of people.
The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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