Akhil Sharma
Author
"For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true."
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Memoir
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Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer, Photographer
"I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down."
Clive James
Writer
"The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped."
Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful."
Debra Monroe
Author
"Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma."
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"The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy."
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"Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could."
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"But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs."
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"Much more than memoir; it's history."
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"I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and all that chronological 'and then this happened and then blah blah' doesn't appeal to me that much. I think there's more mystique in what you don't know about."
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