We are all joined in a circle of stories.
Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.
In 2005, my mad half, HER was born... ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness, 2012.
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery. This is not one of those memoirs.
I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody....
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write...
I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.
Fights begin and end with handshakes.
A poet could kill the dead.
The storm before the calm.
I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.
The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.
The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to conn...
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully we...
In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.
Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.
Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.
