#story

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain. ↗

— Peter Brooks

#men #sexuality #storytellers #women #writers

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#evil #fiction #grace #on-fiction #storytelling

History develops, art stands still. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#develops #history #stands #still

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. ↗

— Eric Bana

#comes #creative #creative process #i #me

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#events #liars #make #own #people

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#born #country #everybody #fascism #history

...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things. ↗

— Howard Carter

#archaeology #history #suspense

I am the Love that Dare not Speak its Name ↗

— Alfred B. Douglas

#history #homosexuality #love #male #suspense

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#historiography #history #knowledge #nature

I don't know who he was," Kavita flat-out states, "but whoever he was he sure did a number on you, didn't he?" Mary leans forward to ensure he would see her deviant stare. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe I did a number on him?" Kavita leans in closer as well, and with that same deviant expression, "Yes. I have. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#fiction-novel #fictional #love #lovers-love-story #romance