Quote by Graham Greene

“Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.”

— Sherman Alexie

“Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I'll read him tomorrow.) Sometimes it's like juggling a…

— Francisco Goldman

“Memory, or rather experience -- which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the change which…

— Italo Calvino

“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of…

— John le Carré

“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it…

— Geoff Ryman

“Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would like to…

— John Zelazny

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether…

— Jose Saramago

A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.”

— Min Jin Lee

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“There are things that one keeps on dreaming of forgetting, while others were ought to be remembered, but were kept off.”

— Fady Seleem