It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous &amp; Obscure
&#8220;Will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists.&#8221; (Vanity Fair)&#8220;The brilliance is in the brevity.&#8221; (New York Post)&#8220;A perfect distraction and inspiration.&#8221; (Denver Post)&#8220;Irresistibly clever.&#8221; (Chicago Tribune)&#8220;American haiku.&#8221; (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)&#8220;You could spend a lifetime brainstorming.&#8221; (The New Yorker)&#8220;The pithiest of life stories.&#8221; (O, The Oprah Magazine)&#8220;Makes for compulsive reading and prove arguably as insightful as any 300+ page biography. Taken as a whole, this cascade of quotes from contributors famous and unknown creates a dizzying snowball effect of perspectives and feelings.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;A torrent of self-expression not unlike the one launched by Frank Warren when he began inviting people to write their secrets on the back of postcards.&#8221; (Toronto Star)&#8220;The petite self-portraits encompass love and love, joy and sorrow-everything you&#8217;d expect from a longer book.&#8221; (ReadyMade Magazine)&#8220;A fabulously appealing exercise both for writers and for readers.&#8221; (Telegraph)&#8220;A good number conjure up both a story line and a worldview. Six-word review: Buy it, keep it in bathroom.&#8221; (Philadelphia Magazine)&#8220;I fell so in love with it.&#8221; (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)&#8220;Six words. Personal stories. Infinite possibilities. These ADD autobiographies prove that brevity can be the soul not simply of wit.&#8221; (VSL.com)&#8220;Dude&#8217;s weird premise yields interesting stories.&#8221; (Ira Glass, NPR's This American Life)&#8220;Six-word memoirs leave book lover speechless.&#8221; (Rocky Mountain News)