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

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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

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

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.