Claims Quote by Joshua Foer

It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I…

— Paul Auster

“My memorization skills were so well honed at Korean school that it's now become an involuntary and automatic reflex. I have almost perfect recall…

— Euny Hong

“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!”

— Ashim Shanker

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every…

— Neil Gaiman

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

— David Lean

“The American people and media have an incredibly short memory despite technological tools that allow for infinite storage and recall.”

— Baratunde Thurston

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

— John Mason Brown

“You asked Capp to hire me because I remembered one thing you didn’t?” “I thought the team needed a second pair of eyes attached…

— Scott Meyer

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

— Arthur Schnitzler

I can memorize great swathes of dialogue!

— Christian Campbell

“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

“ The trouble was that I failed to record so much , I wrote, but how could I have believed that if I tried…

— Sarah Manguso