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• La historia de amor perdido y amor buscado de Rachel Resnick abre la trillada narrativa de la adicción para liberar algo crudo, profundo, valiente y redentor. La valentía que se necesita para escribir esta historia sólo es superada por la valentía que se debe haber necesitado para vivirla. Me asombra tanta honestidad. LOVE JUNKIE son las mejores memorias.

  Esperanza Edelman

  Honestidad, Amor Perdido, Tomado

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• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

  Dani Shapiro

  Uplifting, Memories, Moving

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• Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.

  J. K. Rowling

  Struggle, Writing, Long

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• There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

  Raymond Chandler

  Honesty, Writing, Men

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Pareja, Escribir, Años

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• Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.

  Nick Flynn

  Self, Order, Ego

  "Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Nick Flynn". Interview with Sari Botton, therumpus.net. January 24, 2011.

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• Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

  Janine Benyus

  Mudanza, Libro, Pensamiento

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• En última instancia, tanto si escribimos posts, párrafos, ensayos, argumentos, memorias, monografías o incluso simplemente el Gran Tuit Americano, escribir es y debe ser una gran aventura.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Adventure, Argument

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• I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

  Jen Lancaster

  Thinking, Remembers Everything, People

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• When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

  Tayari Jones

  Lying, Fiction, Want

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• Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

  Bill Ayers

  Writing, Narcissism, Excited

  "Entrevista en The Sunday Rumpus: Bill Ayers". Entrevista con Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. 1 de diciembre de 2013.

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• Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

  Andy Behrman

  Pain, Unique, Agony

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

  Joe Eszterhas

  Past, Directors, Prime

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Government, Two, Effort

  "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don't ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Self, Looks, Stories

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as they are in poetry or other prose forms.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Crazy, Ocean, Struggle

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

  John Mihaljevic

  Writing, Guy, Investing

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• You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Healing, Past, Events

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Writing, Past, Emotional

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Philosophy, Writing, School

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• I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.

  Steve Vai

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

  Elie Wiesel

  Honest, Truthful, Being Honest

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• Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Creer, Escribir

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Weight”, Canongate Books

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• A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fun, Light, Way

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• ¿Dónde estarían las memorias sin escritores bipolares? Quiero decir, eso es lo que - todo eso de compartir demasiado es realmente un síntoma muy claro de trastorno bipolar. Y no estoy diciendo que todos, ya sabes, no estoy acusando a cada escritor de memorias de ser bipolar. Pero creo que en cierto modo es una especie de don.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mean, Thinking, Bipolar

  "Ayelet Waldman: On Feeling Like A 'Bad Mother'". Entrevista con Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 4 de junio de 2010.

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