Articles Quote by Tennessee Williams

“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches,…

— Tennessee Williams

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

— Tennessee Williams

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

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.

— Anonymous

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories…

— Iain Reid

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

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details…

— Rick Moody

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in…

— Frank Ocean

The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It wasn’t just movies that couldn’t contain the full cast of characters — it was us. We had to winnow life down so we…

— Miranda July

Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away...

— Alexander Pope