#memo

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction. ↗

— Frank Harris

#form #memoirs #well-known

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy. ↗

— Betty Hill

#fallacy #memories #missing #recover #you

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. ↗

— James Herriot

#couple #days #even #happened #having

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. ↗

— John Hersey

#bomb #deterrence #fear #happened #hiroshima

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough. ↗

— James Hillman

#been #childhoods #enough #many #memories

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#called #did #i #man #marathon

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#end #good #good soldier #into #last

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life-lessons #memories #life

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#interesting #keep #memoir #mind #necessarily

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #incapable #me #memoir #publisher