Artillery Quote by Mark Z. Danielewski

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one…

— Antonio Tabucchi

The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to…

— Marina Warner

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly…

— John Mulaney

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers…

— Neil Gaiman

“Although the telling of our story is a learning tool, we must use caution lest we are swept away in the compulsive momentum of…

— Kim Lincoln

Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and…

— Perfume Genius

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

— Lisa Tuttle

“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“I can no longer hear my voices, so I am a little lost. My suspicion is they would know far better how to tell…

— John Katzenbach

“Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that…

— Jon Krakauer

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny…

— Shaun Tan

“one might call this state ["youth" (but that seems inaccurate)] "remembering" but memory is quite eerie like caging a dream, and when I recite…

— David David Katzman