Memoir Quote by Lavinia Greenlaw Download Open image ““This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.”” — Lavinia Greenlaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memoir Memory
“I go through memory after memory, looking for reassurance that nothing has changed, but it's like flipping through a book of stories I've outgrown.… — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
“What isn't remembered never happened. Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record.” — Yoshitoshi ABe Copy Share Image
“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...” — Joann Sfar Copy Share Image
“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“...loving music didn't have to mean wanting the same song all the time, or believing it perfect, and that what you loved didn't have… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“[My mother] believed we could each change the world, but what convinced me this was possible was music.” — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“I got to know [teen music] as we absorb music in passing but can remember only its seriousness and weight.” — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“I was thrilled by discovery, crushed by disappointment, and mortified by any misplaced enthusiasm. I declared allegiance, took a position, and always had a… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice. — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“Why did girls never play air guitar? Did we sing along because singing was what girls did or was it that girls only sang… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“This is the starting point of dance: something -- the music, the steps, your partner -- holds you but you also have to hold… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“There are times when we need the rocket fuel of singing and dancing to power us through an act of blind faith. Falling in… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“When children meet other children, they have to do something -- fight or play.” — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.” — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his life, he’d… — L.K. Campbell Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
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