Certain Quote by Gunter Grass

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.” ― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

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

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked…

— Marianne Fredriksson

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in…

— Frank Ocean

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted…

— Sarah Dessen

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...

— Tim O'Brien

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

“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…

— Iain Reid

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every…

— Neil Gaiman