#story

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#end #in the end #into #novel #pour

And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#back #being #big #big budget #budget

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ↗

— Abba Eban

#behave #exhausted #history #men #nations

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. ↗

— Abba Eban

#first #history #i #i think #morrow

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? ↗

— Black Elk

#bend #even #friend #going #heavy

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#any #completely #could #different #different perspectives

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#between #class #classes #development #dominated

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#back #bring #character #designed #doom

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#century #damage #done #earth #history