“Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.” FirstsEyeMemoriesGriefDogTearsMoonNotesWaveSunlightSleepersJinglesDog FoodSaboteurs Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.” MayLittlesHomeMemoriesSawsPagesWineNotesStrikesDesksNotebookInadequateWrong ThingsNoticingStainsSpurs Author:Jonathan Raban
“Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.” NeedsMayArtStillsEndsFormSufferingOrderPassionMemoriesQualityGreaterModernEffectsTypeConcernedAimUnityNotesRateDeeperCuriousImpulseExceptionIntensityAestheticImitationModern ArtCadenceWidth Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.” I CanCharacterMemoriesTakenNotesDialogueAttributesComposites Author:Akhil Sharma
“I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.” WritingTryingLittlesHelpingSeemsRememberTermMemoriesPerspectiveDiscoveryLet MeNotesPatternsPhonesPeacefulHelp MeCompassionateHabitualLet Me Down Author:Richard Brancatisano