Memory Quote by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

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

— Alice Munro

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it…

— Salman Rushdie

“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

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

“Sometimes a memory is a thing that can't be explained using words.”

— Cath Crowley

“Memory is fiction,”

— Keith Richards

“Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch,…

— Megan Hart

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

“If you ask for a memory and they tell you a story, they're lying”

— Sophie Hannah

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Memory was a story you told yourself about yourself, extrapolated from a tiny dot-matrix of facts.”

— Jeremy Dyson