Donna Leon Quotes

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

I was frustrated I couldn't remember stuff, and I got real upset. It was driving me nuts.

I have a really bad memory, to be honest.

I have no memory of 'Bigg Boss.'

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.

Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.

That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget.

I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. "Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla" - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!

I have an amazing ability to forget.

I don't even know my own phone number.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.