Books Quote by Anne Brontë

“This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Sherman Alexie

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That”

— Paulo Coelho

“Detail exists not only to make us remember the things we don’t want to, but to remind us that there are some things we…

— Brock Clarke

“Absences can also make one forget. Absence dulls the memory and banishes those who are precious from the mind.”

— F. Sionil José

“He didn't read them. He praised them for what he imagined to be in them”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions…

— Emma Donoghue

“Why was he doubly irritated? Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget.”

— James Joyce

“He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.”

— Richard Darman

“The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent. ”

— Sorin Cerin

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

— Mindy Welch