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Memoirs Quotes

When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety Picture Quote #1

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity Picture Quote #1

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty Picture Quote #1

I’ve been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I’ve been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it Picture Quote #1

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don’t they stay there on Mars? Picture Quote #1

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own Picture Quote #1

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When I’m dealing with the 18th century, as I do in ‘The Firebird,’ the difficulty isn’t only finding what a woman did, it’s finding her at all. Most of the sources I’m dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men Picture Quote #1

I don’t know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely Picture Quote #1

[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant’s Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s easy to write one’s memoirs when one has a terrible memory Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it Picture Quote #1

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him - Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress Picture Quote #1

Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; he left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; he spoke of a place in the heart Picture Quote #1

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory Picture Quote #1

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime Picture Quote #1

I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book Picture Quote #1

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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs Picture Quote #1

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer Picture Quote #1

I’ve been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I’m just not interested Picture Quote #1

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state Picture Quote #1

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have Picture Quote #1

Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story Picture Quote #1

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People say it’s not what happens in your life that matters, it’s what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn’t happen, or something you thought didn’t happen. Otherwise there’d be no need for fiction, there’d only be memoirs and histories Picture Quote #1

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own Picture Quote #1

Stalin didn’t write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them Picture Quote #1

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it’s difficult to conceive that there’s a great imaginary life in which you can participate Picture Quote #1

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When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety. (Memoirs Quotes) Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. (Memoirs Quotes) The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. (Memoirs Quotes) I’ve been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I’ve been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it. (Memoirs Quotes) What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don’t they stay there on Mars? (Memoirs Quotes) If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own. (Memoirs Quotes) When I’m dealing with the 18th century, as I do in ‘The Firebird,’ the difficulty isn’t only finding what a woman did, it’s finding her at all. Most of the sources I’m dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men. (Memoirs Quotes) I don’t know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely. (Memoirs Quotes) [Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant’s Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell. (Memoirs Quotes) 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. (Memoirs Quotes) It’s easy to write one’s memoirs when one has a terrible memory (Memoirs Quotes) 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 (Memoirs Quotes) With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it (Memoirs Quotes) The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him - Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress (Memoirs Quotes) Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; he left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; he spoke of a place in the heart (Memoirs Quotes) We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory (Memoirs Quotes) I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime (Memoirs Quotes) I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book (Memoirs Quotes) I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs (Memoirs Quotes) I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer (Memoirs Quotes) I’ve been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I’m just not interested (Memoirs Quotes) It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state (Memoirs Quotes) I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have (Memoirs Quotes) Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story (Memoirs Quotes) People say it’s not what happens in your life that matters, it’s what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn’t happen, or something you thought didn’t happen. Otherwise there’d be no need for fiction, there’d only be memoirs and histories (Memoirs Quotes) Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time (Memoirs Quotes) 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 (Memoirs Quotes) If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own (Memoirs Quotes) Stalin didn’t write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them (Memoirs Quotes) People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it’s difficult to conceive that there’s a great imaginary life in which you can participate (Memoirs Quotes)

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