Memories Quote by Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.” ― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

— Anna Funder

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

— Alice Munro

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and…

— Li-Young Lee

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

— Haruki Murakami

Memory is the thing you forget with.

— Alexander Chase

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with…

— William Maxwell

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

— Ellen Hopkins

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 like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more…

— Joshua Foer