#story

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#birthday #birthdays #friend #husband #i

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. ↗

— Chris Marker

#cross-section #history #i #insofar #interest

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#bad #effectively #enthusiasts #literary #more

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. ↗

— Walter Martin

#church #committed #credibility #great #great minds

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. ↗

— James Martineau

#good #great #history #lost #minds

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. ↗

— Karl Marx

#activity #ends #history #individual #individual person

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#humor #story-people #work #humor

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#basic #compromised #i #level #most

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#book #certain #challenge #chosen #criticize