Memory Quote by Schroeder, Alice

“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“He started Number the Stars before we were even out of the store. "The only problem is, I already know how it ends," he…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.”

— Elena Ferrante

“When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before the capital…

— Nicole Krauss

“I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students.”

— Arne Næss

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.”

— Martin Luther

“hypertext readers often “could not remember what they had and had not read.”

— Nicholas Carr

“He had become so caught up in building sentences that he had almost forgotten the barbaric days when thinking was like a splash of…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory…

— Matt Haig

“My brain didn't seem to want to conform itself to the task at hand and kept wandering to stupid things like a compulsion to…

— Anonymous

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain