Art Quote by Scott Spencer

“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

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never…

— Carl Sagan

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I…

— Marie Calloway

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life…

— Ernest Hemingway

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

— Julian Schnabel

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a…

— Hannah Kent

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the…

— Jeanette Winterson

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a…

— Elizabeth Bowen