"It's not until you're older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember."

Memory, Childhood, Importance, Life

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"It's not until you're older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember."

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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

Creativity, Writing, Understanding, Perspective

"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."

Literature, Books, Culture, Inspirational, Imagination

"It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me."

Growth, Change, Learning, Life

"Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket."

Integrity, Honesty, Transparency, Secrets, Truth

"For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists."

Writing, Storytelling, Mystery, Novel

"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."

Research, Learning, Books, Solitude

"I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us."

Future, Choice, Change, History

"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."

Reflection, Awareness, History, Self-Knowledge

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

Politics, Media, Blame, Opinion

"We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books."

Media, Choice, Reading, Books, Modernity

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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Memory, Life, Truth, Wisdom

"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."

John Green, American Author

Memory, Faith, Tradition, Practice

"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Memory, Truth, Regret, Life, Inspirational

"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Memory, Childhood, Life, Pleasure

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

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Memory, Time, Life, Change

"The end of times?" said Nanny. "Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied with happy memories - they're there to be cherished."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Memory, Death, Truth, Regret, Happiness

"If knew more about Alzheimer's and the Brain, your mind will be blow and most cases you will confused..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Hatred can't erase love memories.You need to focus on anything else."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Memory, Love, Hate, Focus, Emotion

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Memory, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Memory, Past, Fear, Escape