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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. — Isabel Allende

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — Haruki Murakami

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away. — Kij Johnson

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt. — S.A. Tawks

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else. — S.A. Tawks

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory. — Jim Rohn

I think all writing is done through memory. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. — C.S. Lewis

CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
JOEL: I know.
CLEMENTINE: What do we do?
JOEL: Enjoy it. — Charlie Kaufman

But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. — Stephen King

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ? — Rumi

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about. — Benjamin Franklin

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it. — Gregory Maguire

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. — Fish

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth. — Igor Stravinsky

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory. — Isaac Marion

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory. — Henry Fielding

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well. — Javier Marias

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing. — Joe Haldeman

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. — Patricia Hampl

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

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance. — Haruki Murakami

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience. — Edmund Wilson

I write to breathe life back into memory. — Bernice L. McFadden

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory. — Aeschylus

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last? — Vivian Gornick

How many great gems were lost to thought
and not put down to pen.
You can but think of just a few
and then they're lost again. — L.F.Young

If you don't write it down, it never happened.
Cathy (& Jack) Ryan — Tom Clancy

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words. — Terry Jones

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical. — Patricia Hampl

Pain engraves a deeper memory. — Anne Sexton

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler

Great places, great memories. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Memory is a rascal. — John Dufresne