“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.” WorldNeedsHeartMeanLosesBreakFailingThis WorldOffersSucceedAccountsMemoirIntimacyGossipTruthfulTestimonyBreak Your Heart Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women. Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great literature and with an inspired teacher.” WellsImportantWarLiteraturePleasureResultsConsciousnessTeacherReflectionAccountsMovedComplexesIslamInspiredMemoirRadicalEncountersStirringOrdealsThoughtfulnessTheocracyRadical IslamGreat Literature Author:Susan Sontag
“Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'” PeopleIfsWritingStoriesAccountsDrawingMemoir Author:Salman Rushdie
“The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.” TryingStoriesDifferencesParticularAccountsMemoirAutobiography Author:Salman Rushdie
“A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.” WayHardLightFunSubjectsDangerousAccountsMemoirDelightfulRelatableJunkie Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.” StatesScienceSubjectsStudentsAdvantageAccountsOriginalsPhysicsMemoir Book:A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism Source: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism