Memory Quote by Amy Tan Download Open image “I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.” — Amy Tan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory Writing
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction.… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Lebih baik jadi orang yang TIDAK TERLUPAKAN daripada orang yang MEMBOSANKAN -” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
