Books Quote by T. E. Hulme

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or…

— Arthur Smith

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,

— Herta Muller

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through…

— James Franco

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it…

— Virgilia Peterson

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

— David Shields

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh…

— Anonymous

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

— Albert Einstein

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

— Haruki Murakami