A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Writers are rememberers.
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
Memory narrativises itself.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.