[on writing his memoir, "Slash"] The only reason I wrote it is because a lot of the stuff I was reading and seeing about the band got pretty frustrating. I just had to straighten out some shit.
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What readers will discover in this moving memoir is that no one is immune from the pain of loneliness, abandonment, divorce and all of the losses and challenges we each face in our lives.
Judith Regan
Publishing is tough. As a writer, if I`d murdered my family, that`d be a great gift, not to my family maybe, but definitely to my book. Oprah`s defense (of Frey) just doesn`t work. You can`t say a memoir is 90% true. Which 90%? It`s cheating.
Daniel Wallace
My book Trust Your Heart, which is the story of my life, will be followed by Singing Lessons, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins
I`m a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I`m certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
Jamie Curtis
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
Allynne Jones
I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you`re going to take your life, in a horrible rage i...
Paul Westerberg
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.
Armistead Maupin
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.
Armistead Maupin
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Allynne Jones
[Michael Durant, who broke a leg and his back when his Black Hawk crashed, recalled in his 2003 memoir that as he recovered,] I had begun to really understand how much my comrades resented the actions of the Clinton administration, and their anger and bit...
Angelica Diaz
[on writing his memoir, "Slash"] The only reason I wrote it is because a lot of the stuff I was reading and seeing about the band got pretty frustrating. I just had to straighten out some shit.
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