It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
Memory narrativises itself.
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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.
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
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