Quotes of: Memoir Keyword

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Augusten Burroughs

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

Questlove

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do we do with the memory - or in the memory - of the beloved? Some commemorate love with statuary, but behavior, too, is a memorial...

The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the...

The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It just takes one person—a teacher, a friend, a parent. If I didn't have you and Dad, if you hadn't made it so clear you loved me as much as ...

Freaky Freshman: A Memoir of Bullying and Social Anxiety

Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at other people, I automatically form thought bubbles over their heads. Happy Couple With Stroller. Innocent Teenage Girl W...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary o...

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Many writing texts caution against asking friends to read your stuff, suggesting you're not apt to get a very unbiased opinion[.] ... It's unfair, according to this view, to put a pal in such a position. What happens if he/she feels he/she has to say...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It always pisses me off when I’m calling in to some Morning Zoo radio show to promote God-only-knows what—probably this book, so get ready, I’m comin’—when the DJ actually tries to convince me that there are as many female comics as male on...

Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

people don't get me it's more rule than exception God bless exceptions

Clips & Consequences: a memoir

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

When the winds of life is pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace.

Devotion: A Memoir

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

He doesn’t hurt us anymore.” Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore.

Embers: A Memoir

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

The Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir

..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;

Brains: A Zombie Memoir