#story

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#believed #daughter #encouragement #forming #helpful

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#cannot #end #favorite #folks #i

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#good story #matter #story #who #wrote

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#doodle #form #harder #i #lot

I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way. ↗

— Jim McKay

#conventional way #i #like #story #unconventional

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big #canvas #challenge #could #deliberately

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#learning #reading #experience

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #history #intellect #itself #like

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed