There were a lot of stories that I didn't tell in my memoir, that I couldn't tell, but that will no doubt find their life in fiction.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg so prizes stability and loyalty that he discouraged goodbye parties for employees of his media company, writing in his memoir that he could barely bring himself to wish departing workers good luck.
Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, said in his recent memoir that he could not rule out another political bombing like the one he was involved in at the Pentagon more than two decades ago.
"Over Easy" was 15 years in the making — first as a memoir that her agent couldn't sell.
"What a life he has led," exulted Morgan Forster, who himself lived past ninety, "and how he has led it!" When he was still at work on "After the Deluge," Leonard Woolf suggested that "even a failure might bring some small ray of light or grain of knowledge," but it was on the last page of the last volume of his memoirs that he could say with sincerity, "There are other assets of old age.
- Prayer and Potatoes," J.T. Pettee The most poignant of these memoirs begins with sentences that could have been written by Isak Dinesen and could not have been written better by Hemingway in that year: "There was a train, not a particularly good one, that stopped at Vevey about ten in the morning on the way to Italy.
General Westmoreland contended in his memoirs that the United States could have won the war.
The Mandelson memoirs confirm that Brown couldn't convince the electorate that he could "do normal".
Rabin wrote in his memoirs that the Israelis easily could have taken Cairo, Amman, and Damascus.
Bergquist urged him to write his memoirs, believing that a publisher could be found who would pay well for them; Cosey got no further than the opening paragraphs.
