People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

A lot of presidential memoirs they say are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad ones you did do well that's Memoirs.

I have more freedom when I write fiction but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message ' even if I am not even aware that there is one is conveyed better in this form.

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful often urgent and essentially life-affirming but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Listen in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.