A Quote by Jim Harrison

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

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Jim Harrison
American - Novelist
December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016

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 honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Isabel Allende

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. I'm a comedian and a writer.

Mike Birbiglia

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

Erika Jayne

I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

Dana Perino

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

Frederick Busch

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

Natalie Merchant

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

Thomas Lennon

The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.

Douglas Adams

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Vladimir Lenin

I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.

Gillian Flynn

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

Harlan Coben

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

Susan Ford

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

Jesmyn Ward

I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.

George Burns

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Haruki Murakami

What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?

Ashley Graham

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