On Writing A Memoir Of The Craft Quotes & Sayings

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. — Mark Rothko

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. — Roger L'Estrange

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt. — Stephen King

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit
and eventually a profession
of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged. — Koren Zailckas

No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different. — Camille Paglia

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. — Stephen King

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement. — Elbert Guillory

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art; Annie Dillard and Cort Conley, eds., Modern American Memoirs; Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory; Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay; Jane Taylor McDonnell, Living to Tell the Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir; and William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. — Vivian Gornick

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. — D.T. Max

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am — Drake

When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory. — Maureen Murdock

Stephen King have a lot of books about the writing not only "The Writting: Memoir and Craft", but and "Nightmares and Dreamscapes", however "Misery", also and "Bag of Bones" and even and others. Which is awesome, different perspectives for being a an writer. — Deyth Banger

If you know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow, the voltage of that experience is immediately mitigated. — Chuck Klosterman

In Edmund Gosse, Agnes Smedley, Geoffrey Wolff, we have a set of memoirists whose work records a steadily changing idea of the emergent self. But for each of them a flash of insight illuminating that idea grew out of the struggle to clarify one's own formative experience; and in each case the strength and beauty of the writing lie in the power of concentration with which this insight is pursued, and made to become the the writer's organizing principle. That principle at work is what makes a memoir literature rather than testament. — Vivian Gornick

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. — John Gierach

Communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand ... — Jinnul Jr.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease. — David Perlmutter

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of firsts — Truth Devour

You might tell yourself that candor is the foundation of a relationship, but even that would be untrue. You are far more likely to lie to yourself, or your loved one, if you think it will keep the pain at bay. — Jodi Picoult

Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire. — Gillian Marchenko