Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!
The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.
(n.) Alt. of Memoirs
You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - - said to me by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about 30 days, when I was 18 years old!
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.
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,...
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.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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...
...I didn't want to be a passenger on someone else's motorcycle.I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker.
Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.
Debbie Downer" was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-leve...
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...
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.
Is there anything courageous or brave about making the only possible choice that will save your life? When you're drowning, you grab any hand that's offered. To me, bravery is a spontaneous decision t...
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. Al...
Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.
You have what it takes! Believe! You are the one with the dream. You own it. And you will walk through the open doors. Nothing can stop you.. Risk, even if you make mistakes. So live with faith and ab...
I know that I'm crazy. And that has made all the difference." From: Furiously Happy: A funny book about horrible things.
Showing 141 to 160 of 189 results