“Anything processed by memory is fiction.”
“Memory is fiction,”
“I transform fiction into memory.”
“Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.”
“there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.”
“Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]”