Memory Quote by Haruki Murakami

“I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.”

— Harry Bauld

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“about one’s life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We’re too busy standing in the middle of it…

— Pat Summitt

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard…

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

“...it all remained unreadable for him, though reading, he felt, was not a natural thing and should not be done to people. In general,…

— Lorrie Moore

“...what it had indexed to was only an idea of a place, an abstraction formed from memories too brief and passing to account for…

— Kevin Powers

“Because this territory in my internal universe is continually shifting, I've learned to look for patterns and rhythms in the chaos that I can…

— Sascha Altman DuBrul

“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would…

— George Eliot

“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could…

— Sarah Dessen