#stories

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#iliad #indeed #magnificent #much #odyssey

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#get #i #inspiration #stories #unconventional

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fantastic #i #prose #sophisticated #stories

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#cnn #consistently #highlight #left #look

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return. ↗

— Otto Frank

#death #experiences #had #hopeful #lots

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#ourselves #stories #telling

I started writing stories as a child. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #started #stories #writing

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. ↗

— Debra Winger

#give #give me #granted #great #i

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could. ↗

— Len Wein

#best #could #did #god #i

The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, public health, electricity, chemistry and agriculture, were being, if not laid, at least mapped out, people could still believe in the existence of devils and demons. And why not? A good ghost story is pure entertainment. It was not until well into the twentieth century that ghost stories began to have a deeper significance and to become allegorical; in fact, to lose their charm. No mental effort is required to read 'The Weird Woman', no seeking for hidden meanings; there are no complexities of plot, no allegory on the state of the world. And so it should be. At what other point in literary history could a man, standing over the body of his fiancee, say such a line as this: 'Speak, hound! Or, by heaven, this night shall witness two murders instead of one!' Those were the days. (introduction to "The Weird Woman") ↗

— Hugh Lamb

#ghost-story #horror #victorian #victorian-age #victorian-era