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Susanna Kearsley

When I’m dealing with the 18th century, as I do in ‘The Firebird,’ the difficulty isn’t only finding what a woman did, it’s finding her at all. Most of the sources I’m dealing with – letters and memoirs and written reports of the day – have been written by men.

– Susanna Kearsley

Steve Erickson

All of Wes Anderson’s films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

– Steve Erickson

Stephen Hunter

Memoirs of a Geisha’ is everything you’d expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It’s just not very hot.

– Stephen Hunter

Simon Sebag Montefiore

The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family’s home life during the last years of Russian autocracy.

– Simon Sebag Montefiore

Sanjaya Baru

Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.

– Sanjaya Baru

Sanjaya Baru

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

– Sanjaya Baru

Samin Nosrat

I’ve always joked that my food memoirs will be titled ‘Brutta ma Buona,’ the phrase Italians use to describe food that’s delicious but rustic-looking at best: ugly but good.

– Samin Nosrat

Sally Mann

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.

– Sally Mann

Rosemary Mahoney

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

– Rosemary Mahoney

Robert Gottlieb

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs – and her violently checkered career – attest.

– Robert Gottlieb

Patrick O'Brian

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

– Patrick O’Brian

Pat Barker

Undertones of War’ by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

– Pat Barker

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