Memory Quote by Amy Tan

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

— Arthur Schnitzler

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

— Nova Ren Suma

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

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

— Marilynne Robinson

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

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I have a really bad memory, to be honest.

— Tierra Whack

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

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

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Alice Munro

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

— Annie Dillard