There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. Votes: 1
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory. Votes: 1
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood. Votes: 1
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. Votes: 1
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. Votes: 1
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory. Votes: 1
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. Votes: 1
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time. Votes: 1
I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books. Votes: 1
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills. Votes: 1
I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country. Votes: 1
I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful. Votes: 1
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. Votes: 1
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books. Votes: 1
I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and E.B. White on another. Camus often features, as do Tolstoy, Borges, Morrison and Manto. Votes: 1
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory. Votes: 1
One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach. Votes: 1
What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory. Votes: 0
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. Votes: 0
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Votes: 0
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. Votes: 0
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. Votes: 0
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. Votes: 0
Books, too, begin like the week â with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday. Votes: 0
A raznochinets needs no memoryâit is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. Votes: 0
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. Votes: 0
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. Votes: 0
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 Votes: 0
Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with. Votes: 0
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless. Votes: 0
Books worth reading are worth re-reading. Votes: 4 Holbrook Jackson
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. Votes: 6 Oscar Wilde