Six Words Is Six Words Too Many

Six-Word Memoirs

How's your life going? Can you tell me in six words? Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith think you can. They edited a book called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.

The original idea was drawn from a famous story about Hemingway. Asked to write a story in six words, he wrote: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Asked to write the story of their lives in six words,

Joyce Carol Oates wrote: "Revenge is living well, without you."

Stephen Colbert wrote: "Well, I thought it was funny."

A woman named Lo wrote: "Have I done enough? Probably not."

I wrote: "Is that all there is, remembering?"

Here's a video promoting the book, yes, but with a bunch more of these six-word memoirs.


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