memory Quotes

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.