Books Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or…

— Arthur Smith

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

— Cassandra Clare

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't…

— Matt Besser

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in…

— Frank Ocean

I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when…

— Steven Tyler

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as…

— Chad Smith

I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I…

— Marie Calloway

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels…

— Lydia Davis

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

When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction.…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than…

— Iain Reid

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

— Jacqueline Woodson