"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."

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"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."

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"The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging to the frail hope that these memories of mine were nothing but a dream or a delusion. I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried to push them into the dark, they came back stronger and more vivid than ever. Like cancer cells, these memories have taken root in my mind and eaten into my flesh."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Memory, Truth, Delusion, Struggle

"My memories always clutch my brain to understand the past."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Memory, Past, Reflection, Understanding

"In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody's memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory, some memories are lost by the passage of time, psychological defense mechanisms screen other memories from detection, the ephemeral character of other memories are invariably to elusive to arrest with reciprocal language."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Memory, Solitude, Writer, Past

"It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Memory, Nostalgia, Loss, Time

"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Memory, Dream, Embarrassment, Humor

".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Memory, Humanity, Distance, Teaching

"Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Memory, Imitation, Love, Loss

"In my brain were stored a thousand pictures."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Memory, Life, Thought, Imagination

"Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed and the shining shieldSuspended in the hall, and full in sight,While secret longings for the lost delightOf tourney or adventure in the fieldCame over him, and tears but half concealedTrembled and fell upon his beard of white,So I behold these books upon their shelf,My ornaments and arms of other days;Not wholly useless, though no longer used,For they remind me of my other self,Younger and stronger, and the pleasant waysIn which I walked, now clouded and confused."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Memory, Aging, Books, Strength

"But they held tighter to each other, past and present and future; flickering between an ancient hall in a mountain castle perched above Orynth, a bridge suspended between glass towers, and another place, perfect and strange, where they had been crafted from stardust and light. A wall of night knocked them back. But they could not be contained. The darkness paused for breath. They erupted."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Memory, Connection, Past, Light

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"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."

Home, Life, Children, Deep

"In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it."

Work, Day, Needs, Writing, Years

"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."

Time, Work

"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."

People, Memory

"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."

Complexity, Nothing

"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."

Personal, Observation

"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."

Want,

"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."

Memory,

"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."

Time, People, Play, Tennis