National Public Radio’s show “Talk of the Nation” featured memoir writer Marion Roach Smith offering her advice about writing memoir:
Among writers and advice mentioned in the article:
“Flannery O’Connor said that anyone who survives childhood has enough material to write for the rest of her life.”
“What Ernest Hemingway taught us in the last century still gives good weight: What you leave out of the story is perhaps more important than what you put in. ”
“[William Maxwell] believed that to write, all you need is to remember the slam of your childhood home’s screen door. He’s right, too, because you have what you need to write what you know.
Marion Roach’s story of her name is here: “What’s In a Name?”
