A Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think all writing is done through memory

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuban - Novelist
April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005

I think all writing is done through memory.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

Francisco Goldman

The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

Socrates

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

Michael Connelly

I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen to paper you are establishing a hierarchy of some sort - this emotion over that emotion, this memory over that memory, this thought over another. And isn't that process of establishing a hierarchy on the page a kind of political act?

Nick Laird

I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.

Dave Barry

You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before it's done that it's going to be done.

Sheila Heti

I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his favorite food is, or most traumatic memory, etc. - that's always seemed like a fraudulent way of assembling a fictional person.

Teddy Wayne

Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.

Julian Barnes

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Paul Haggis

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Haruki Murakami

Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.

Amit Goswami

Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.