[February 2006] Look at what happened to James Frey in the last two weeks. That`s a great book and so is the follow-up book. And just because his publisher chose to say that these were memoirs, it took it out of being a work of fiction, a great work of fi...
Bruce Willis
I always think it`s really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you. I always think you are lucky to get offered [something like] `Memoirs of a Geisha`, but I don`t think it will hap...
Zhang Ziyi
[on being asked if she would ever write her memoirs, 1983] "The Lord never wrote a book, not that I knew about. Not really. And I don`t think Abraham Lincoln ever wrote a book. So I have put it off again."
Irene Dunne
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Akim Millington
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova
People think that because a novel`s invented, it isn`t true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell
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
Doing a movie like `Memoirs` was good in the sense that it tickled me into thinking, `Well, maybe I have to be a little more feminine.` But after two hours of that, I said, `Fine, OK, I did that,`
Michelle Yeoh
[Until about 25 years ago, staffers` memoirs were respectful of the man in the Oval Office.] These people were proud to serve their great men, ... Kennedy`s men -- (Ted) Sorensen, (Arthur) Schlesinger -- they loved him. They weren`t about to betray him.
Ann Marie Tallman
[Numerous different types of book were proposed. Poetry, novels, memoirs, essays, journals, scientific works. Several historical studies were recommended, including Angus Winchester`s Harvest of the Hills, an examination of the pastoral culture of the Bor...
John Stewart
I`ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can`t divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
