Autobiographical Memory Quotes

#1. The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

Antonio Damasio

#2. Autobiographical memory: Memory across the lifespan for both specific events and self-related information.

Alan Baddeley

#3. A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words ... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

J.L. Austin

#4. I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.

Sefi Atta

#5. Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

Gunter Grass

#6. If you will it, it is no dream.'" "I like that ... Who said it?" "Theodore Herzl.

Zack Love

#7. People would rather believe than know.

Edward O. Wilson

#8. On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Horace Mann

#9. What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Margaret Fuller

#10. I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

Tao Lin

#11. I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory.

Oliver Sacks

#12. Jobs are hard to come by, so players are extremely motivated to do whatever it takes to keep their job.

Brendan Daly

#13. He looked like himself, Eleanor thought, but bolder. Like Park with the volume turned way up.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer
Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa
It's a killer bee color scheme

Ghostface Killah

#15. In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Rohinton Mistry

#16. He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

Sarah Addison Allen

#17. People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#18. The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

Lucian