Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all. You needed to…

— Patrick Ness

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

“Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”

— John Wooden

“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties,…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don’t know…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“That is my story. Believe what you will. I remember it all; I remember it still.”

— Mili Fay

“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

“I confessed my past. I left it behind. Must I be reminded of it forever?”

— Sylvain Reynard

“You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.”

— Fan Wu

“The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.”

— John Crowley