I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

- Harlan Coben

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

- Shirley Jackson

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

- Richard Flanagan

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

- Robert Gottlieb

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

- Mitch Albom

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

- Mitch Albom

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

- Kelly Corrigan

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

- Jami Attenberg

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

- Jim Harrison

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

- Isabel Allende

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

- Alice McDermott

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

- Elie Wiesel

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

- David Benioff

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

- Donald Miller

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

- Carrie Fisher

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

- Carly Fiorina

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

- Arthur Phillips

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

- Akhil Sharma

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

- Augusten Burroughs

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

- Alexei Sayle