I can Quote by Jorge Semprun

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

— Gretchen Rubin

Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried…

— Paul Beatty

I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like…

— Jeffrey Brown

“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent,…

— Rebecca Solnit

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

— Maya Angelou

I don't feel like I have the greatest memory, so finding selfish motivations for writing things down helps... I'm like, it would be really…

— Gracie Abrams

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

— Tommy Lee

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something…

— Allison Joseph

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

— Caroline Leavitt

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow -…

— Anne Michaels