Memoirs Quotes

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

I will leave no memoirs.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

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.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

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.

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.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

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.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

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.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

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.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.