You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
I have a very, very good memory, and I always remember the people who have done right by me and the people who have done wrong by me.
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
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.
Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.