Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional. Dana Spiotta associativeconveydisorder share on social
Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that. Alice McDermott changehaveinterest Change image and share on social
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? Martin Farquhar Tupper idiotmemoryrepeat Change image and share on social
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. David Halberstam memorytruth Change image and share on social
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember. Graydon Carter distortlensmemory Change image and share on social
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory. Kazuo Ishiguro actualatmospherecentral Change image and share on social
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde carrydiarymemory Change image and share on social
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. Candice Bergen agecasualtycorrectly Change image and share on social
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. Janet Fitch dimensionfourthlandscape Change image and share on social
