Autobiographical Memory Quotes

#1. 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

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

Alan Baddeley

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

Lucian

#4. 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

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

Sarah Addison Allen

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Rainbow Rowell

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

Brendan Daly

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Horace Mann

#13. People would rather believe than know.

Edward O. Wilson

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

Zack Love

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

J.L. Austin

#18. 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