#story

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bombers #doves #less #more #peace

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#almost #assignment #book #doing #farmer

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. ↗

— Stephen King

#else #going #happen #know #make

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#between #contemporary #contemporary life #i #i write

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#character #emotional #facet #how #innately

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#been #behave #believe #haven #history

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#difficult #difficult circumstances #home #how #raised

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ↗

— Washington Irving

#history #life #life is a #whole #woman