Anything Quote by Herta Muller

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

— Haruki Murakami

Literature is the memory of humanity.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

— John Henry Newman

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction.…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

— George Henry Lewes

“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 is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“For those who write memoirs, memory is not a mere recollection of facts; it is a ragbag we pick through, salvaging scraps to craft…

— Rossandra 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

Sometimes we talk about memory as though it's firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject…

— Laura van den Berg

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

— Samuel Johnson