The human brain is like a memory system that records every…

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…

— Haruki Murakami

“Water was a strange substance, like memory - much to push against, but nothing solid to hang on to.”

— Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

— T. E. Hulme

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I'd…

— Helen Lowrie Marshall

“Imagination, like memory, can transform lies to truth.”

— Christina Garcia

“There’s nothing like the memory of a lost friend to remind a man of his own mortality.”

— John J. Winters

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

— Haruki Murakami

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.…

— Aldo Rossi

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…

— Haruki Murakami

“But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“[HAMILTON] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

— Andre Gide

I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask…

— Carrie Brownstein

“But that age … exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams.”

— Heinrich Heine