In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitter...
(n.) Alt. of Memoirs
I know that I'm crazy. And that has made all the difference." From: Furiously Happy: A funny book about horrible things.
The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.
My brother distrusts the essential truth of memories; I distrust the way we colour them in. We each have our own cheap-mail-order paintbox, and our favourite hues. Thus, I remembered Grandma a few pag...
Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir yo...
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I d...
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.
So when people see me walking on the street, they feel like we're old pals. Women pull my cheeks and men clap me on the shoulder; I'm like a petting zoo. But movie stars, on the other hand, are much m...
Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.
Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.
Staring at my smoldering hot date, her husband stands tall for the first time in a decade, adjusting his toupee while flashing a horrid green toothy grin that looks more like a Steven Hawkins muscle s...
Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch,...
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
Yvette is a woman who looks like a church bell. Her copper body curves with purpose, angles on a chair as if from a tower overlooking a village by the sea. Her bones are strong everywhere, in her chee...
The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.