Word: knowing
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...read an interview from 2006 in which you said you felt like you were done writing about your own life. Oh, you know us memoirists. All we do is lie. I hate saying it, because it's going to sound awful: "Memoirist Says Writing 'Cathartic.' " But it is. I definitely want to write novels, but I seem to have to continue to process these other events. My next book is not a novel, but it's also not a memoir. It's a very different book...
...said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would...
...bunch of memoirs that [were falsified]. They must have had something in there that rang true to people, like good novels. I haven't even read any of those memoirs. I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers. (See the top 10 literary hoaxes...
...face it: I've written six memoirs now, and I'm 44. That's a lot. And some might say I haven't had nearly as much happen to me as I've said in my memoirs. I can see how people would believe that. So I don't know that I would call it unfair. It has been irritating in the past because I have felt like, All right, I don't know how to prove this to you. I've done all my little memory tricks and I don't know why I remember [what...
...sure enough, when This Is It the movie opens Tuesday night with simultaneous premieres in 16 cities across the globe, the King of Pop will take the world stage once more. Only in Hollywood could the unfinished dream become celluloid reality, in part because only in Hollywood do they know how to sell it. "This is a testament not only to Jackson's worldwide appeal and the outpouring of grief around his death but also to the marketing of this movie, which has been straight out of a business-school demo," says Steven Gaydos, executive editor of Variety. Sony spokesman...