“What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it lea...” — Darin Strauss Quote

“What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.”

“If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?”

“I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.”

“Those welterweight guys, man, you definitely can feel their punches. They hit a lot harder. They pack a lot more power than a lightweight or a featherweight.”

“After having a child, my career just skyrocketed. You have all that weight to kill off - you're working 10 times harder.”

“Writing songs about how I feel has always been easy and fun for me, and I think the business side of music has been something I've had a harder time learning.”