#story

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#another #books #doing #fabricated #going

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#birthday #birthdays #friend #husband #i

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. ↗

— Chris Marker

#cross-section #history #i #insofar #interest

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#humor #story-people #work #humor

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story. ↗

— John McGahern

#forever #going #i #i think #important

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story. ↗

— John McGahern

#comes #consciousness #difference #excitement #great

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#dramatic #important #into #music #news

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#anything #before #difference #else #filmmaker

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked. ↗

— John Morton

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