Quotes About Memory

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.

I definitely take notes, but I feel like sometimes if I take too many notes, it kind of bogs down my mind a little bit. So, I just write down stuff that I need to remember for the game.

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.