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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
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I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
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There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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