" Director Elia Kazan later wrote in his memoirs that he had misinterpreted the play by infusing it with excessive naturalism.

Yegor Ligachev writes in his memoirs that Chernenko was elected general secretary without a hitch.

He writes in his memoirs that he felt saddened that he had grieved his father.

Historian Richard Altick writes that " To judge from the number of references to it in the private letters and memoirs of the 1840s ... Punch had become a household word within a year or two of its founding, beginning in the middle class and soon reaching the pinnacle of society, royalty itself ".

Martin writes in his memoirs, " As I feared, Willkie had difficulty reading the speech from the small type.

Powell himself stayed at the Hotel du Port et des Negociants on two occasions in the early 1930s and writes in the second volume of his memoirs The naval port, with its small inner harbour, row of cafes along the rade, was quite separate from the business quarter of the town.

In his memoirs, Wilson writes of " selling LBJ a bum steer ", a reference to Johnson's Texas origins, which conjured up images of cattle and cowboys in British minds.

In his memoirs he writes:

The novelist Jocelyn Brooke, who died in 1966, writes evocatively about Folkestone and Sandgate in his memoirs.

Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), the author of many supernatural and fantastic fictions, lived at 23 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill Gate, in the 1880s ; he writes of his life here in his memoirs, Far Off Things ( 1922 ) and Things Near and Far ( 1923 ).

The work, showing the author's interest in the theories of Sigmund Freud, is written in the form of the memoirs of one Zeno Cosini, who writes them at the insistence of his psychoanalyst.

And yet Magenta ( as Mac-Mahon is also known for short ) writes in his still unpublished memoirs: " By family tradition, and by the sentiments towards the royal house which were instilled in me by my early education, I could not be anything but a Legitimist.

However Jean Renoir writes in his memoirs: “ Stroheim spoke hardly any German.

In his memoirs he writes: " At this time I began to experience anger, envy and even hatred towards the landowner and especially towards his children-those young slackers who often strolled past me sleek and healthy, well-dressed, well-groomed and scented ; while I was filthy, dressed in rags, barefoot, and reeked of manure from cleaning the calves ' barn.

In Edwardian England, Louis Mazzini ( Dennis Price ), the Duke of Chalfont, writes his memoirs while in prison awaiting execution the next morning.

Soto writes novels, plays and memoirs, and has edited several literary anthologies.

Al-Biruni, who himself lived a large part of his life in Ghazni located just northwest of the Sulaiman mountain range, writes of the mountain range in his memoirs as being the western frontier mountains of South Asia and the homeland of the people known as the Afghans or Pashtuns.

We may not get the answer until and if he writes his memoirs, but I doubt it even then because the Herbert Brownell I grew to know would not write about his personal secrets.

In The Hobbit, Tolkien writes of the protagonist and title character Bilbo Baggins composing his memoirs.

Bill Clinton writes in his memoirs My Life that Ralston was used to resolve a potentially sticky situation with Pakistan in which the US would use Pakistani airspace to strike at the Al-Qaeda organization meeting in Afghanistan following the US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Many years later the commander of the Acheron writes his memoirs and reveals that information had reached the Federation from One of Earth's most distinguished astronomers, now living in honoured retirement on the Moon.

William Shatner writes in his memoirs that " The Devil in the Dark " was his favorite original Star Trek episode.

In her memoirs about her famous sister, Ludie Montgomery writes that Terrell was the victim of sexual molestation by three boys after leaving a neighborhood party at the age of eleven.

Thatcher writes in her memoirs that Carlisle " had not proved a particularly effective Education Secretary " and to this effect he was dismissed in the September 1981 Cabinet reshuffle.

Lee Kuan Yew dismissed Catherine Lim ’ s views as “ the popular theory that the Western press writes about .” In his memoirs, Lee is quoted as saying:

Justin may have preferred the designation " memoirs of the apostles " as a contrast to the " gospel " of his contemporary Marcion to emphasize the connections between the historical testimony of the gospels and the Old Testament prophecies which Marcion rejected.

103: 5-6 ) of Jesus, which are believed to have originated from the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus, illustrate the use of gospel narratives and sayings of Jesus in a testimony source and how Justin has adopted these " memoirs of the apostles " for his own purposes.

Raeder later claimed during his testimony at Nuremberg and in his memoirs to have been opposed to the denunciation of the A. G. N. A., which he claimed to have been kept in the dark about, but contemporary evidence from 1939, not the least Raeder's own role as the author of the Z Plan suggests otherwise.

Moreover, Speer consented to numerous interviews after his release from prison, and some of the things said in these interviews, like those with Gitta Sereny, contradicted with both his court testimony and memoirs.

However, Höss's testimony did not consist of merely a signed confession ; he also wrote two volumes of memoirs and gave extensive testimony outside of the Nuremberg proceedings.

These memoirs ( Gedenkschriften ), which appeared in four volumes (' Genesis ', ' Growth ', ' Surf ' and ' Storm ') after 1925, almost became part of the furniture in the house of many Dutch workers, further testimony to Troelstra's reputation among his followers.

According to the testimony of J. Sadoul, a French socialist who was present then in Moscow and wrote memoirs about this period, it was Dybenko's fellow mariners who saved him.

Much of what we know about Robert-Houdin comes from his memoirs — and his writings were meant more to entertain than to chronicle, rendering it difficult to separate fact from fiction.

* In 2003, Alastair Campbell ( who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM ) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies. The alleged bug discovery was at a hotel during PM Tony Blair's official visit to New Delhi in 2001.

The " X " article meant sudden fame for Kennan, who became the father of the government's containment doctrine overnight, leading him to write in his memoirs, " My official loneliness came in fact to an end .... My reputation was made.

Even as a child Walker had a militaristic streak ; in his memoirs Fighting On he says he ordered the previously " idle, unpatriotic, unkempt " pupils into " showing the school what smartness on the parade ground meant ".

Daisy, the Countess of Fingall, in her regularly republished memoirs Seventy Years Young, wrote in the 1920s of the disappearance of that world and of her change from a big townhouse in Dublin, full of servants to a small flat with one maid.

Also in residence are American family, the Creams, who must be handled with kid gloves to prevent their canceling a big business deal with Bertie ’ s uncle ; Audrey Upjohn, Bertie ’ s former headmaster, who still chills Bertie ’ s soul ; Upjohn ’ s insipid daughter, Phyllis, who is infatuated with the playboy kleptomaniac wastrel American, Willie Cream, and must be put off ; Bertie's old pal Roberta Wickham, engaged to be married to Bertie ’ s old pal Reginald Herring, who has written a caustic, libelous review of Upjohn ’ s memoirs and thus whose future depends on assuaging Upjohn ’ s wrathful soul ; and familiar face Roderick Glossop, eminent psychologist to the wealthy, is there in the disguise of a butler to surreptitiously assess Willie Cream's psyche.

In a vaguely similar vein, Ernest Hemingway uses the term " pilot fish " in his memoirs ( A Moveable Feast ) to refer to the scouts that rich people send out to check on artists to see if they are the next big thing.

Emperor John VI Cantacuzenus, a big supporter of Greek education, in his own memoirs always refers to the Byzantines as " Romans ", yet, in a letter sent by the sultan of Egypt, Nasser Hassan Ben Mohamed, referred to him as " Emperor of the Hellenes, Bulgars, Sassanians, Vlachs, Russians, Alanians " but not of the " Romans ".

Indeed, evidence suggests that Rosales was very nearly shot as well for helping García Lorca by the Civil Governor Valdes. The Basque Communist poet Gabriel Celaya wrote in his memoirs that he once found García Lorca in the company of Falangist José Maria Aizpurua.

However, in the other hand, researcher Oleg V. Levchenko found-based in other official documents, personal documents of Pokryshkin found after his death ( that he kept away of his family ) and memoirs of other Pokryshkin's comrades-that Pokryshkin in fact shot down 94 enemy aircraft, damaged 19 and destroyed three more in the ground.

In his memoirs he said " I think I shot every day of those fifteen years I spent in the marshes and the pleasure never palled ".

Trevor Royle quotes James Turner who in his memoirs reported that after skirmish in Kilwarlin woods, Irish prisoners were given " bad quarter, being shot dead ", but two other eye witness accounts of the skirmish, ( a letter by Roger Pike and the dispatches of Major-General Robert Monro, the Protestant commander ), do not mention the killing of prisoners.

The violence in the Gem was not confined to the prostitutes, with the saloon being a frequent site of gunfights between drunken patrons ; and in one memorable instance, the memoirs of John S. McClintock reported a prostitute named " Trixie " having shot a large hole through the skull of a man who astounded everyone by surviving for another half an hour.