Books Quote by John Updike

“Pictures: When moments become memories”

— Kaustav Misra

The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the more you…

— Martin Scorsese

Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional…

— Damian Loeb

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with…

— Isabel Lopez

I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those…

— Paul Auster

“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed…

— Kathy Reichs

“Those early characterizations (Our parents give us) can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a…

— Kelly Corrigan

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the…

— Roger Rosenblatt

“I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way…

— Ellen Raskin