Fiction Quote by Chelsea Cain Download Open image “Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.” — Chelsea Cain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Fiction Tell Just Memory Memory Fiction Ourselves Piece Piece Truth Tell Truth
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is… — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“She'd liked Pearl. Pearl hadn't meant to Tazer Archie. Well, she meant to Tazer him, but how was she supposed to know that her… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew'… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak that had… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet.… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
![“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than fact. Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are…” quote by Iain Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5bd/iain-reid-34619_memory_pretty-much-all-memory-is-fiction-and-he_1422117.jpg)
![“Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]” quote by Damon Galgut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bea/damon-galgut-32445_books_memory-is-fiction-all-memory-is-a-way-of_604970.jpg)
