Amber Quote by Michael Chabon

“The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I…

— Haruki Murakami

“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power. Over time…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and…

— Noam Shpancer

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of…

— Scott Spencer

“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

“Memories are fragile, you try to grab them and they skitter away in various directions. Trying to gather them together to write them out…

— Kiran Manral

“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally…

— Rebecca Solnit

“We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence by arranging…

— Dan P. McAdams

“Certain moments in my life are imprinted in me memory. They're easy to recall with perfect clarity, whether I want to remember them or…

— Elizabeth Norris

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor…

— Peter Matthiessen

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

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