“I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of songwriting, songs sing themselves to you tonally and also lyrically. And it's not necessarily your own visual memories that are writing the song. It's like there are words that you can catch out there and you have to be able to see and hear them.” ThinkingWritingAbleJobsSongMemoriesRolesListeningVisualsSongwritingSongwritersDeep Listening Author:Mirah
“I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.” WantWritingMomentsWantedGivenStuffMemoriesDarkPainfulCapturePainful MemoriesGetting Along Author:Kate Christensen
“Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.” WritingFirstsMemoriesBandGood Memories Author:Craig Finn
“It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.” WritingSometimesLeftImaginationMemoriesEmotionEasierGuidesOur Memories Author:John Dufresne
“The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be.” WritingHardStoriesAgeRememberUsedFoundMemoriesFictionStepsMaterialsTalesUsed To BeElusiveIntricateWriting Fiction Author:Marina Warner
“As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks or in word documents/the Internet. I feel like these habits and a generally good memory of people/the interactions I have with them (due to studying people having always been my main interest in life) have lead me to being very accurate in things I write in stories/essays.” PeopleFeelsWritingStoriesSocialInterestMemoriesSituationStudyInternetHabitConversationDuesInteractionAccurateDocumentsEssaysNotebookLeading MeGood MemoriesRerunsInterest In Life Author:Marie Calloway
“I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.” IfsGivingFeelsWritingI CanStoriesMemoriesEventsPerceptionDirectGive MeObjectivesMeant To BeInfallibleObjective Truth Author:Marie Calloway
“I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.” PeopleWritingHomePoliticalOpportunityMemoriesMy OwnDemocracyExampleAmountResearchTownsDeeperSocialismCompareTransitionBombingNationalisticHome Town Author:Sasa Stanisic
“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.” WritingLittlesCharacterFactsStoriesHandsReadingFeltBitsProcessImaginationChallengesMemoriesSimpleEqualApproachLittle BitResearchExploringWriting ProcessMy ImaginationReading More Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.” WritingBookHomeWould BeWantedWaitingMemoriesDadStoresLawyerComicComing HomeComic BookLeatherBriefcases Author:Arvind Ethan David
“What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back, there have been glimpses I've had. Sometimes literally a glimpse which made me suspect the presence of something extraordinary and beyond the realm of the immediate. That's what I think a lot of what my writing has been, my preaching has been - trying to listen to that voice again, to see those moments again.” ThinkingWritingTryingHas BeensMadeSometimesMomentsVoiceMemoriesExtraordinaryBelieverRealmsSuspectsPreachingGlimpse Author:Frederick Buechner
“What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move on, you know? She's still there - and by "she" I mean me - caught in that windowless room, that bad bargain and that violation. No one can touch me, sexually, without activating that memory. But I had walled, I thought, that time off. I say that and then want to say "and I got off lightly"!” KnowsWantWritingMeanStillsMovingMemoriesRoomsCaughtViolationBargainsSexuallyTouch MeTime Off Author:Laura Mullen
“Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.” WritingEasyMemoriesDestroyedEasy To GetOld Memories Author:Annie Dillard
“What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.” GivingWritingHomeRememberMemoriesSceneClassmates Author:Quentin Tarantino
“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
“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.” WayWritingPersonsSometimesCharacterMemoriesGoneEtcPaceBiographiesTextbooksAssemblingFavorite Foods Author:Teddy Wayne
“I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.” WritingMeanBookMemoriesReviewsMy ThoughtsBook Review Author:Debra Hamel