Come Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

The thing is, all memory is fiction,

— Robert Goolrick

All memory is fiction.

— Kwame Dawes

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in…

— Frank Ocean

Memory is imagination pinned down.

— Mason Cooley

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

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

— David Halberstam

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende