Memory Quote by Ibraheem Hamdi

“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From…

— Harriet Doerr

“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get…

— Isabel Allende

“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a…

— Norman Mailer

“We come from a place that has always been inside us. Our words migrate helplessly. The world reflects only itself. Which is why we…

— Richard Jackson

“Writing is a wonderful voyage of discovery. So sit down and write, and see where your mind can take you...”

— Sarah Jane Avory

“There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes…

— Adam Gopnik

“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

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without maps and…

— Elizabeth Buchan

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller