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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

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