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A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

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

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

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

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

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