#story

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #history #major #storytelling

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ↗

— Peter Berger

#changing #flexible #happened #interprets #malleable

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#history #i #i am #myself #ok

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#family #honor #i #i am #life

Every doorway, every intersection has a story. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#every #intersection #story

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#aspects #bend #clearly #distill #down

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#decline #hype #journalism #landmark #much

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#character #criticism #experts #favorite #german

Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#because #clarified #doing #feel #i

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#complete #easy #feel #interesting #like