Quote by Debra Dean Download Open image ““Whatever is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments”” — Debra Dean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments. Her distant past is preserved, better than preserved. Moments that occurred in… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“...a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she's back there in the moment, like she has the moment to do over and make different choices than she made. But she can't, because they're just memories and they're set down permanent as if they were chiseled in marble,… — Alden Bell Copy Share
“...for surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Memories were such fleeting things, yet the human brain stored them like food for the winter of old age.” — Victoria Bylin Copy Share Image
“The taste might remain on her brain, but the substance would be gone,” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.” — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“The mouth remembers what the brain can’t quite wrap its tongue around & that’s what my life’s become. My life’s become my mouth’s remembering,… — B.P. Nichol Copy Share Image
“Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was.” — Chad Kultgen Copy Share Image
“If someone asked her just then what memory was, what the purest definition of memory was, she would say this: the street you were on when you first jumped in a pile of dead leaves. She was walking it right now. With every fresh crunch came the memory of previous crunches. She was permeated by familiar smells: wet woodchip and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“He wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks.” — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we eat others to affirm our own existence. Sometimes we forget what we see the moment we've seen it.” — Janice Lee Copy Share Image
“Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.” — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience. — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself. — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Along the way, I've worked as a waitress, I've done phone surveys, and worked as a receptionist, and for the last twenty years I've… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“He nods solemnly and repeats the stock response of the Housing Committee whenever they address the perpetual shortage of apartments in Leningrad. “Privacy is… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“Each day, the world is made fresh again, holy, and she takes it in, in all its raw intensity, like a young child. She… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
