Direct Quote by Marie Calloway

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

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

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no…

— Nick Morgan

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep…

— Daniel Kahneman

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

— Kristin Chenoweth

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain…

— Robyn

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I…

— Tobias Wolff

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

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

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a…

— Paula Danziger