"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."

Narrative, History, Story, Relevance, Lesson

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"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."

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"The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet - tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true - love hearts."

Sarah Addison Allen, American Novelist

Narrative, Memory, Home, Emotion, Comfort

"Many stories magnify a fact."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Narrative, Story, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Narrative, Hero, Media, Good, Evil

"First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns."

Robert Creeley, American Poet

Narrative, First, Wonder

"Relaxation is, a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm."

Gudjon Bergmann, Icelandic Author

Narrative, Relaxation, Mindfulness, Calm, Body

"People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based not upon conjecture but with applied reason."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Narrative, Life, Writing, Story

"Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones."

Libba Bray, American Author

Narrative, Violence, Story, Observation, Darkness

"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."

Arthur Herzog, American Novelist

Narrative, Eyes

"How many pages will it take to tell your story?"

Ashly Lorenzana, American Writer

Narrative, Story, Identity, Expression, Life

"It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story."

Jenny Han, American Novelist

Narrative, Story, Fate, Journey, Acceptance

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"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Identity

"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."

Writing

"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."

Politics

"It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger."

Courage

"I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion."

Intuition

"Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave."

Grief

"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."

Experience

"Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you."

Writing

"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."

Relationship

"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."

Knowledge