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Memories Quotes by John Irving
- A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
- You think you have a memory; but it has you!
- Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.
- Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you…
- The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.…
- And never forget, there is memory.
- Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have…
- And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the…
More Memories Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu