“Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone's actual face?” IfsFeelsWritingHeartRealMightFacesLife IsHappenedReal LifeMemoirCritiqueReviewersItching Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric - but some of the comments and communications and gestures she gets in the wake of that success are stunningly and atrociously over-personal, as if suddenly people feel like they know her and her life intimately, and have permission to transgress all her "life" boundaries.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsTalkingCommunicationBoundariesMemoirOddCommentGesturesPermissionWeirdness Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I made a piece of art. Why the preciousness or mystical unicorns around "memoir"? I'm curious how you feel about it just now.” FeelsKindArtMadeAttitudePiecesTiredProductionsMemoirCuriousArtisticEngagedMysticalHow You FeelUnicornLife Attitude Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the reader to feel their own body while they are reading, is this: we live by and through the body, and the body, is a walking contradiction.” FeelsTryingReasonBodyReadingReaderWalkingChiefsContradictionLive By Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.” PeopleFeelsLittlesProblemJobsLawBitsUnderstandingBreakCollegeWallLittle BitPaintQuittingCheatEraseRemakesSprayUnderstanding WhySpray Paint Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.” PeopleThinkingFeelsRunningFightingDifficultStuckAspiration Book:The Chronology of Water: A Memoir Source: The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
