Ambivalence Quote by Penelope Lively

Sometimes we talk about memory as though it's firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject…

— Laura van den Berg

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

— Diane Sawyer

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

— Twyla Tharp

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

— Alain de Botton

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own…

— Salman Rushdie

Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me.

— Warren Beatty

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

— Adrian Forty

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making…

— Dana Spiotta

“Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called “working memory” that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any…

— Mark Williams

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

— Stefan Zweig

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

— Heidi Julavits