Memoir Quotes

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

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

I will leave no memoirs.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

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

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

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

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

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

A lot of my songs are very personal, always, but this one felt like a memoir. I almost called it Hallucinated Memoir. "Granny" is a hallucinated memoir. It's straight-up symbolism for my life, in many ways.

A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

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

I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and all that chronological 'and then this happened and then blah blah' doesn't appeal to me that much. I think there's more mystique in what you don't know about.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

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

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

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.

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

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.