“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.” YearsMindI CanIdeasSometimesRememberMemoriesPiecesWrittenHavensPaperSixYears AgoDown AndBlueMusclesChordsMuscle Memory Author:Ryan Adams
“What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.” LongDoeHelpingMemoriesPiecesRiversRoseForgottenGlassesWoodsBonesSunsetChairsStomachFloatingPencilsPact Author:Gunter Grass
“Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.” HeartSpiritualLiteratureLanguageNationsMemoriesCommonPiecesUnityCeaseDespitePrintWoeInterventionDeprivedClosingViolationDisturbedCommon LanguageClosing DownSpiritual Unity Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.” WritingLittlesDoneAbleMemoriesPiecesSittingZeroSitting DownTranceTrickery Author:John Hodgman
“Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.” HumansFallMemoriesPiecesInformationEndureOutcomesFormalCoatsClosetsHookFormal EducationNew Information Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature
“Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.” MemoriesPiecesOur Lives Book:Word Painting Source: Word Painting
“Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it's completely blank.” WayActionRememberCoursesMemoriesPiecesDetailsBlankColorful Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?” WritingMatterGivenInterestMemoriesPiecesWonderfulModernInformationOrdinaryMouthsSaltVolumePackagesIrreverent Author:Ama Ata Aidoo
“It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.” WorldWayFeelsMindEyePastNightBitsMemoriesPiecesFrontsBrokenSpeciesPainfulUglyNostalgiaGuiltyDullWeedBuriedDisplayNurtureVeinsInsomniaJunkFadedHeadacheGarageKindlesDeep WithinCellarsPush UpsPainful PastGarage Sale Author:Adam Young