Books Quote by Tobias Wolff

“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.”

— Tobias Wolff

“Why was he doubly irritated? Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget.”

— James Joyce

“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all…

— Stefan Zweig

“Why bother reading something that you won’t remember?”

— Jonathan Nolan

“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his…

— Nanci Kincaid

“Whenever he was unclear about some idea or emotion, uncertain in his perception of someone or vague about a memory, he sat to his…

— James Carlos Blake

“He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents…

— Haruki Murakami

“But what I’ve always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he’d done just a second before.…

— Garth Stein

“the thirty-some years since then, his mind had eliminated that experience from his memory. He remembered it as if he’d read it in a…

— Isabel Allende

“He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books…

— Kristine Grayson

“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from…

— Diana Gabaldon