Actually Quote by Samuel R. Delany

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Memory is imagination pinned down.

— Mason Cooley

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…

— Haruki Murakami

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

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory feeds imagination.

— Amy Tan

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger…

— Sigrid Nunez

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Write it down. Not just to remember it, but to forget it in the right way. My notebook are a kind of materialized subconscious,…

— Ivan Vladislavić