“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.” WayWritingMadeUseMemoriesFictionHappenedNeededMy FamilyMeaningfulNovelistsMatureWriting Fiction Author:Ayelet Waldman
“All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.” RememberImaginationMemoriesForgetJournalismNovelistsCompostBad Memories Author:Graham Greene