Book Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You can look at a photograph, years later, of a place that is vivid in your memory, and find that it looks nothing like…

— Deborah Lawrenson

The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive,…

— Minor White

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or…

— Arthur Smith

Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap…

— Tom Shippey

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a…

— Siri Hustvedt

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

“Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.”

— Orhan Pamuk

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd…

— Cornelia Funke

“That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over a span…

— Milan Kundera

“At the bottom of the box were two big fairy-tale collections our father had sent us sometime after our parents divorced in 1963. I…

— Mira Bartok