Memoir Quotes
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.
Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry
In those days food was never just sustenance
We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.
But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.
This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this flawed hero as he gains a liberating knowledge of himself.
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.
If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.
You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.
Chris didn’t need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.
How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.
The stars were withdrawn, small, giving no light, unlike other nights when they seemed to hang large from the sky ready to be reached for and taken into our hands.
Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.
Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.
After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.
There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.
Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.
I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.
Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.
That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
Lesson learned: If you’re already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month of meeting him, he is not the one.
The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes.
The next day I received a phone call from Mr. Pride which began, “So, I heard you won Ho of the Year.” Well when you put it like that it didn’t sound like such an accomplishment.
To me, the words “food” and “guilt” didn’t belong in the same sentence unless, say, you were referring to how you felt about the starving children in Africa.
I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities, and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.That isn’t my story.
There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.
autism is more like retina patterns than measles
Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.
While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good at storytelling. I hope that you enjoy my stories as I recall them.
A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.
Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement.
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Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.
It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.
From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor.
Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much ofwhat I love in that face.
The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I am.
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.
When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.
