If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'
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I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.