Backgrounds Quote by Paul Beatty

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

— Jorge Semprun

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Memories are like songs, they keep replaying in your head until you move on to the next part.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The funny thing is that I have this tendency to remember stuff really, really well, which is quite weird, even though I don't read,…

— Jay Blades

Memories are like the house of ANTS, You never know, how many are hidden inside it. BUT When one comes out of it, Then…

— Unkown

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

— Brian Eno

When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling -…

— DJ Spooky

My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.

— Robyn Davidson

Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I…

— Amelie Nothomb

My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me.…

— Mary E. Pearson

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

— Conor Oberst

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