Definition of Memoirs

Memoirs

A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.

An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.

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Memoirs Quotations

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova

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

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Tom Robbins

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
Jerry B. Jenkins

I will leave no memoirs.
Comte de Lautreamont

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Manuel Puig

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
Armistead Maupin

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Andy Hertzfeld

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben-Gurion

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
George Meredith

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
Frank Harris

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gerald Clarke

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Memoirs Translations

memoirs in German is Denkschriften

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