#story

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#archetypes #campbell #i #joseph #know

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. ↗

— Edward Norton

#duality #just #story

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#israel #israeli #lebanon #many #military

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#story #true #whether #write

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#carrying #down #get #i #out

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#even #i #know #later #me

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#beyond #book #case #darkness #discovering

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#out #reader #responsibility #somehow #story