#story

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#book #books #collaboration #every #i

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

#believer #big #big believer #classics #cold

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. ↗

— John Green

#happy #hopeful #me #never #responsibility

Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded by your authority, while you encourage us to burry ourselves in debt and rely on our corrupt governments. Men and women around the world have been forced to work long hours to keep up with inflated debts, all the while abandoning the families they struggle to support. History repeats, and repeats. It’s time to break the cycle and start anew. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#history-repeating-itself #politics #science-fiction #family

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. ↗

— Andy Grove

#change #company #decline #dramatically #history

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#little #live #makes #marks #pulp

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? ↗

— John Guare

#bad #become #did #history #live

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#historians #history #history repeats itself #itself #other

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. ↗

— James Gunn

#i #narrative #prefer #rather #replace

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth. ↗

— Val Guest

#america #anybody #bomb #bombs #caught