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Writing And Memory Quotes

Now I’m writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing Picture Quote #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 Picture Quote #1

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory Picture Quote #1

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, ‘absolutely not.’ But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish Picture Quote #1

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building Picture Quote #1

My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don’t make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I’m aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy Picture Quote #1

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I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world Picture Quote #1

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant Picture Quote #1

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories Picture Quote #1

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter Picture Quote #1

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I think all writing is done through memory Picture Quote #1

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory Picture Quote #1

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Now I’m writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing (Writing And Memory Quotes) 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 (Writing And Memory Quotes) I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory (Writing And Memory Quotes) When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, ‘absolutely not.’ But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish (Writing And Memory Quotes) On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building. (Writing And Memory Quotes) My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don’t make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I’m aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy. (Writing And Memory Quotes) I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world (Writing And Memory Quotes) We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory (Writing And Memory Quotes) 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 (Writing And Memory Quotes) What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant (Writing And Memory Quotes) Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories (Writing And Memory Quotes) Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter (Writing And Memory Quotes) I think all writing is done through memory (Writing And Memory Quotes) Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory (Writing And Memory Quotes)