"We think not in words but in shadows of words."
--Vladimir Nabokov, Humbert Humbert
"The thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you."
--Tim O'Brien
"By telling stories you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yours
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