#story

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#historical #history #i #i am #icon

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story. ↗

— John Saxon

#asked #autobiography #because #been #couple

In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#story #writing #age

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#history #japan #new #opened

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#move-on #story #dreams

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward. ↗

— Debra Winger

#i #just #me #pulls #show

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#storygirl #writing #age

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#canada #first #fly #france #geese

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#exciting #film #go #great #people