Lasting Quote by Henry Fielding

“Remembering things or processing memories can be a charged, or frightening, or uncomfortable time. It can help to imagine yourself being a reporter. This…

— A.T.W

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative…

— Natasha Trethewey

Some people write to remember, some people write to forget.

— Needa Muy

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

— Richard Linklater

“When you write something down, you give yourself permission to forget.”

— Mindy Welch

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

— Jorge Semprun

“Write it down. Not just to remember it, but to forget it in the right way. My notebook are a kind of materialized subconscious,…

— Ivan Vladislavić

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger…

— Sigrid Nunez

To memorize something,it's best to write it down.

— Koushun Takami

I think all writing is done through memory

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

— Arthur Schnitzler