Memoir Writing Quotes
Memoir Writing Quote of the day
Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.
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 ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .
I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.
Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages, Maybe afraid of being bitten.
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.
A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.
It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.
Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.
Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.
Always remember that your memoir is never about you. It's about your reader. At it's core, it's about that shared space where we all experience the timeless truths of what it means to be human.
The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.
We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.