#story

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #myself #really #stories #storyteller

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#means #outside #piece #remain #step

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. ↗

— Willy Ley

#many #necessity #story #study #things

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#honest #i #i can #many #must

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan. ↗

— John Linder

#across #battle #been #beginnings #day

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#size #story #tell #want #whatever

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#book #characters #contributed #conventional #different

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#endless #equally #frequently #hence #history

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. ↗

— Titus Livius

#actions #before #desirable #exemplary #eyes

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history