Memory Quote by Iain Reid Download Open image ““Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited.”” — Iain Reid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory
“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is… — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
“I go through memory after memory, looking for reassurance that nothing has changed, but it's like flipping through a book of stories I've outgrown.… — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“/You’ve been presented with a rare opportunity that,at the moment,remains unresolved. But why is the unknown a burden? It doesn’t have to be. It… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“That's the thing. Part of everything will always be forgettable. No matter how good or remarkable it is. It literally has to be. To… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“We never really know someone else's thoughts. And it's thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through things that… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“I can't say this to Jake and I don't, but maybe it's better to be alone. Why abandon the routine we each master? Why… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“The possibility of evil shocks you. But you aren’t the target, so it’s okay. You forget about it. You move on. It’s not happening… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“People talk about the ability to endure. To endure anything and everything, to keep going, to be strong. But you can do that only… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
