Collective Quote by Anatoly Rybakov

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small…

— Stephen King

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

— Mark Rubinstein

“A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.”

— Mark Rubinstein

I think all writing is done through memory

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“All writers want to a place their mark upon human consciousness by creating a physical record of their distinctive thoughts and an index of…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

— Helen McCloy

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.”

— Tim Campbell

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

— Kirby Wright

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon