#story

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again. ↗

— Bob Massie

#proverbs #war #home

When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father’s archaic restrictions and my mother’s culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap. ↗

— Nell Grey

#objects-of-desire #short-story-collection #solstice #home

History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him. ↗

— Edward Hallett Carr

#home

If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#story-people #humor

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#away #costs #could #director #fearful

One thing was certain: he was my one. Most people go on their whole lives and never find their one, but I found mine. I found him when I was twelve-years-old. ↗

— Jennifer Edlund

#friendship-and-love #love #love-story #young-lovers #friendship

He’s an indulgent sort of man…… With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#charm #fierce-tongue #friendship-and-love #jamie-weise #love

on why he writes the things he writes: "Because I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. ↗

— Stephen King

#on-writing #storytelling #humor

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#accordingly #changed #i #scope #somewhat

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. ↗

— Alan Bean

#backing #even #forward #history #maybe