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“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

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Author:Mark Leyner

“My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.”

Writing Reason Memoir

Author:Donald Miller

“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.”

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Author:Sara Nelson

“I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).”

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Book:The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

Source: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000