Memoirs

“Why memoir? It means the world becomes yours. If you don’t do it, it drifts away and takes a whole piece of yourself with it, like an amputation. To attack it and attack and get it under control-it’s like taking possession of your life, isin’t it?”

-Ted Hughes

 

“A memoir is how one remembers one’s own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked.”

-Gore Vidal

 

“The story of your life is not your life. It is your story.”

-John Barth

 

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

-Willa Cather