Forgetful Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

— Homer

The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to…

— Marina Warner

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

— Homer

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

— Erin Morgenstern

It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than…

— Sasa Stanisic

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

— Arthur Schnitzler

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old…

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

How easy it is to tell tales!

— Denis Diderot

It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding…

— Rachel Cusk