Books Quote by John Henry Newman

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly…

— Michael Leunig

Memory is the library of the mind

— Francis Fauvel-Gourand

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good…

— Charles Caleb Colton

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs…

— Julio Cortazar

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

— Robert Smithson

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to -…

— Michael Chabon

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

— Nova Ren Suma

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,

— Herta Muller

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

— Chelsea Cain

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

— Haruki Murakami

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively