Dramatic Quote by Allen Wier

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

— Doris Lessing

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

— Alice Munro

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

— Rebecca McClanahan

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

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

— David Grann

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on.…

— Cormac McCarthy

Memory is imagination pinned down.

— Mason Cooley

“[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

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

— Haruki Murakami