In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.
I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.