Edited Quote by James Franco

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

— Diane Sawyer

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

— Amy Tan

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that…

— Alexandra Daddario

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of…

— Andre Maurois