Sentence examples for make good memoirs from inspiring English sources

The first 126 pages of "The Memory of All That" reaffirm the publishing creed that bad parents make good memoirs.

Good neighbors make good fences.

Good managers make good markets.

"Things I Didn't Know" is the story of how another Bobby Hughes — or Robbie Huge, as Julian Schnabel nearly remembered him in his memoir — made good.

It would be easy for Hudson to slip into the well-worn groove of the misery memoir made good, and there are points at which Tony Hogan threatens to lapse into cliche.

For the length of this jaunty, dishy memoir, Friedman makes good on this promise, spinning campfire tales from a career spent turning the written word into that uncelebrated but elusive commodity, a living.

Just after the conflict ended, Mr No flew a Soviet MiG-15 jet over the border and defected to the South.Both men's lives in the nascent North Korean state are deftly woven together by Blaine Harden, an American journalist, who has made good use of Mr No's memoirs, as well as newly declassified air-force intelligence reports, presidential papers and Chinese and Soviet archives.

Byron made good on the pun, too, and was writing up the famous memoirs (his life) around the time he was working on "Beppo".

By and large, he avoids the sometimes unreliable testimony of memoirs for the greater immediacy of contemporary diaries and letters, though he also makes good use of witness statements at postwar trials.

Good neighbors made good fences.

What makes a good memoir?