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

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

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

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

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

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.