Different Quote by Alice Munro

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

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

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as…

— Alice Munro

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

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

“A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than…

— Iain Reid

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

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

— Jacqueline Woodson