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I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Memory narrativises itself.

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

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.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.