Memory Narrative Quotes

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.

Memory narrativises itself.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.