Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.
I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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.
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
