Alive Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Some people write to remember, some people write to forget.

— Needa Muy

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful

— Seamus Heaney

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment,…

— Seamus Heaney

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a…

— David Ignatius

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

— Josh Lieb

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as…

— Michael Morpurgo

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh…

— George Meyer

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a…

— Paula Danziger

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

— Charles Bock

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

— Jorge Semprun

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at…

— Honore de Balzac

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

— Alice Hoffman