Memory Quote by Barry Unsworth

“Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know, sometimes never stops rising.”

— Barry Unsworth

“Memory is fiction,”

— Keith Richards

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

— David Shields

“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

The thing is, all memory is fiction,

— Robert Goolrick

All memory is fiction.

— Kwame Dawes

“I transform fiction into memory.”

— Miguel Syjuco

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

— Damon Galgut

“Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men--he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is the compost…

— Graham Greene

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

— Haruki Murakami

“I am a collector of bread crumbs, all those bits of science and history that I mash and knead together to build my stories.…

— James Rollins