Great Quote by Alice Munro

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when…

— Steven Tyler

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with…

— John Slattery

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether…

— Oscar Wilde

“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Memory is what makes us young or old.

— Anonymous

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of…

— Andre Maurois

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep…

— Daniel Kahneman

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in…

— Frank Ocean

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I…

— Tobias Wolff