Erase Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

— Ralph Ellison

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

— Golda Meir

The past can not be changed, forgotten, edited or erased; It can only be accepted.

— Anonymous

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and…

— Marge Piercy

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

— Ruth Ozeki

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

— Anonymous

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,…

— Anonymous

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

— Ann Brashares

Your past can't be rewritten or erased it can only be remembered and used as a learning tool.

— Slimphatty

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese