In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of…

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party…

— George Orwell

“Six express tracks and twelve locals pass through Palimpsest. The six Greater Lines are: Stylus, Sgraffito, Decretal, Foolscap, Bookhand, and Missal. Collectively, in the…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“threads of power and domination a palimpsest of greed”

— bell hooks

People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence.…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest…

— Jeanette Winterson

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin.…

— Neil Gaiman

“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of…

— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

“Thus it is that four strangers sit in the red chairs, strip off their socks, plunge their feet into the ink-baths, and hold hands…

— Catherynne M. Valente

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

— Natasha Trethewey

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that…

— James A. Secord

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”

— George Orwell

In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow…

— Cormac McCarthy

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

— Teju Cole

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

— A.C. Grayling