Absolute Quote by Siri Hustvedt

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

— Amy Tan

“Remembering things or processing memories can be a charged, or frightening, or uncomfortable time. It can help to imagine yourself being a reporter. This…

— A.T.W

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

“Now keep in mind, memories aren’t historical archives. They’re—improvisations, really. A lot of the stuff you associate with a particular event might be factually…

— Peter Watts

It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds…

— Rebecca Walker

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

However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I…

— Pete Docter

“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

“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

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

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the…

— Nawal El Saadawi