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I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

— Jeffrey Brown

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✓Similar Perspectives

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

— Floyd Skloot

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

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

— Alexandra Daddario

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

— Alice Munro

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

— Gretchen Rubin

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

— Tom Brady

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

— Natasha Trethewey

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

✗Opposing Perspectives

Memory is the thing you forget with.

— Alexander Chase