#story

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#done #either #english #example #for example

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#brought #history #i #i think #important

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#events #home #story #street #these

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#age #age group #am #another #children

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #make #men #sentiments #their

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#facts #forever #lost #newspaper #once

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #individuals #most #periods #revolutions

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#history #human #institutions #jurisprudence #known

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers