Memory Quote by Barry Unsworth

“The kneading of memory makes the dough of fiction, which, as we know, can go on yeasting for ever...”

— Barry Unsworth

“Memory is fiction,”

— Keith Richards

“I transform fiction into memory.”

— Miguel Syjuco

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

“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

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

The thing is, all memory is fiction,

— Robert Goolrick

All memory is fiction.

— Kwame Dawes

“Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is…

— Damon Galgut

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

— David Shields

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited.”

— Iain Reid