Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a... →
Joshua Foer
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what... →
'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I... →
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
Aminatta Forna
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.
Paula Fox
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know... →
Anatole France
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic... →
Charles Frazier
Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
Dawn French
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas Fuller