Memoir Quotes - Page 8

• Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that happened in a particular moment and meant something at that time, and we're trying to capture it to mass reproduce it for readers. So of course something is lost. And when we edit that material, we're getting even further from that aura, but toward something else that is potentially vital.

  Lucas Mann

  Arte, Escritura, Edad

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune.

  David Edelstein

  Stars, Water, Trying

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.

  Jill Talbot

  Enseñar, Escribir, Pensar

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into their work. The fact is that telling a story is a transformative experience. There is rarely a one-to-one translation onto the page unless you're writing memoir, and even then, memory is unreliable. I think that the best books feel emotionally true, and that truth has to be rooted in real-world experience.

  Malinda Lo

  Memories, Believe, Book

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

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• I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't feel like reading at all. I was working part-time for a guy in Venice, California while I drafted Eileen. He wanted help in writing his memoir. The research had a lot to do with the 60s, so that must have informed my sense of the place and time in my novel, and perhaps even the memoir point-of-view. He was also from New England. It was a fun job. I learned a lot about motorcycle clubs, Charles Manson, hopping freight trains.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Fun, Reading, Writing

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Hay tantas historias que necesitan ser contadas y no lo están siendo. Tendemos a encasillar las cosas: "Estas son las memorias de un musulmán" o "Estas son las memorias de una mujer o de una persona normal". Hay una cierta historia que se supone universal. Todo lo demás es ficción étnica. Cualquiera puede aspirar a la universalidad.

  Haroon Moghul

  Suponiendo que

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Una de las razones por las que quería escribir unas memorias era porque estoy cansada de contar mi historia. [Risas] Así que puedo decir, aquí, léelo, esto es todo lo que pasó. Hay un montón de historias chulas sobre la transición de convertirme en receptor de un quarterback en la universidad a ser un chico de equipos especiales, un jugador de rol, a abrirme camino hasta el papel que me he ganado ahora.

  Julian Edelman

  Team, Writing, Tired

  Fuente: wwd.com

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• I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Feel Better, Feelings

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yo escribo memorias, pero esto aparece incluso en la ficción. La gente asume que estás escribiendo una autobiografía apenas velada. Y creo que, sobre todo en el caso de la gente de color, nuestro trabajo siempre se ve como una especie de artefacto antropológico. Así que siempre va a existir esa suposición, pero aún más en las memorias, porque a menudo ni siquiera se cambian los nombres. Es más fácil de verificar.

  Faith Adiele

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Cuando digo que mi trabajo es viajar, eso es lo que hago. Y parte de ser birracial y multicultural es que siempre estoy jugando con el género y las expectativas de género. Por eso, aunque diga que escribo memorias, verán que hago cosas raras con la estructura. Tengo imágenes, letras y periodismo. Intento no atascarme en las expectativas de género.

  Faith Adiele

  Expectations, Trying, Journalism

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just run around getting crazy. The problem with writing a memoir, obviously, is you can't do that because you sort of know what's going to happen. Because you're the character.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Running, Crazy, Writing

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Muchas de mis canciones son muy personales, siempre, pero esta parecía un libro de memorias. Casi la llamé "Memorias alucinadas". "Granny" es una memoria alucinada. En muchos sentidos, simboliza mi vida.

  Vic Chesnutt

  Song, Granny

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Inspiration, Writing, Humble

  Fuente: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

  Lita Ford

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

  Fuente: www.washingtontimes.com

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• A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I realized that almost everything that's happened to me was the result of being in the right place at the right time. And I thought "Well, luck has a lot to do with it," so I wrote it from that perspective.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Perspective, Luck, Producers

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• A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

  Richard Hell

  Book, Moments, Thread

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

  Frederick Buechner

  Answers, Might, Form

  Entrevista con Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. 5 de abril de 2006.

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• I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.

  Cornel West

  Writing, Dark, Capacity To Love

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• Ignoré mi carrera como monologuista durante veinticinco años, pero ahora, después de terminar estas memorias, veo esta época con sorprendente calidez. Resulta que se puede sentir afecto por los años de la guerra.

  Steve Martin

  War, Views, Years

  "Born Standing Up". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Differences, Loathing, Century

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Fun, Writing, People

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• Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

  Jane Fonda

  Writing, Thinking, Use

  "Jane Fonda, gurú del fitness, revela lo que la inspira en una entrevista para la revista Origin". Entrevista con Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. 15 de febrero de 2013.

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• I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain .

  George Packer

  Goodbye, War, Writing

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Fiction, Writing Fiction

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, autora de 'Comer, rezar, amar', sobre lo que hace falta para inspirarse". Entrevista con Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. 11 de agosto de 2013.

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