Summer Research - American Scholar, How to Write a Memoir

https://theamericanscholar.org/how-to-write-a-memoir/#.W6O7PbGZNn5

'Writers are the custodians of memory, and that’s what you must become if you want to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into'

'Too often memories die with their owner, and too often time surprises us by running out.'

'Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and one of its satisfactions is that it allows you to come to terms with your life narrative. It also allows you to work through some of life’s hardest knocks—loss, grief, illness, addiction, disappointment, failure—and to find understanding and solace.'

'That was my remembered truth, and that’s how I wrote it.'

'...writing a memoir became an act of healing.'