We should use our imagination more than our memory.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

— Robin Sharma

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your…

— John Dufresne

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

— Andy Stanley

Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.

— Gary Numan

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

— Anonymous

I started making work, and it's like, yes you are calling out all of these things that are part of your memory, your body's…

— Leonardo Drew

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

— Diane Ackerman

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

— Nicholas Sparks

Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's…

— Anonymous

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

— Josh Billings

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I…

— Isabel Allende

“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would recall places…

— Alice Jamieson

“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.”

— Emil M. Cioran