"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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"Life is a book."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Narrative, Book, Life, Read, Write

"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

"I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of links, and I link furiously, merrily hurdling over holes, gaps, and secrets. Nevertheless, I try to remind myself that the holes are there. They are always there, not only in the lives of others but in my own life as well."

Siri Hustvedt, American Novelist

Narrative, Memory, Storytelling, Identity

"I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place."

Donald Miller, American Author

Narrative, Story, Identity, Meaning

"The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to."

Robert Creeley, American Poet

Narrative, End, Necessity

"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

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"Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Narrative, Storytelling, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. The story is our lives."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Narrative, Storytelling, Connection, Community, Imagination

"I'd prefer her story than history."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

Creativity

"It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me."

Growth

"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."

Reflection

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

Politics

"Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble."

Knowledge

"A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind."

Mortality

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

Work

"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."

Writing

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

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"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

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