The Truth of Memoir Quotes

“Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn’t only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren’t true.”
― Kerry Cohen, The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity

“A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.”
― Kerry Cohen, The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity