Top 236 Memoirs Quotes & Sayings

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

I will leave no memoirs.

The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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 connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in some way, about the process of memory. Memoirs are made out of a confusing, flawed act of creation.

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.

I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

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.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.

Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.

I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested in.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.