41 Memoirs Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. Margaret MacMillan

Made Reading Sense Memoirs Individuals Tick Always Diaries Getting Just Different Loved Personalities Them Different Personalities

The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11. Matt Gallagher

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected. Nigel Hamilton

I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know. Oscar Hijuelos

You Memoirs Pretty Write Students Stuff Know Duke Lot Lack Want Interesting Them Teach Who Twenty

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. Sally Ride

Life Made My Life Television Memoirs About Written Movie

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did. Sanjaya Baru

People Too Many People Alexander Too Memoirs India Write Did Many

I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested. Steve Vai

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Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.' Terry Glavin

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The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me. Tom Reiss

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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. William J. Clinton

Hope Presidential Mine Say Memoirs Self-Serving Dull Lot Interesting They Say

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.' Salman Rushdie

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Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid. John Cooper Clarke

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