#story

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#guess #history #i #professor #weren

Myth is, after all, the neverending story. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#myth #story

There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#great #her #human #i #lied

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#power #story #writing #love

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not. ↗

— Halle Berry

#am #dramatic #every #getting #heavy

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#development #full #given #glory #history

his promises is just like dust..and i hope to be a broom to sweep that :'( ↗

— Vanilla Ais

#faith #love-hurts #love-story #sad-but-true #faith

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#history #most #nations #powerful #republics

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#assigned #classified #communist #consider #heroism