#story

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not. ↗

— John Milius

#either #storyteller #writer #you

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. ↗

— Kate Millett

#animal life #been #care #confined #cultural

It is over with; I am in the history books. ↗

— Michael Moorer

#books #history #history books #i #i am

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#history-of-mankind #humanity #knowledge #age

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked. ↗

— John Morton

#daily #history #never #start #the history of

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet, you know? ↗

— Colleen Coover

#short-story #home

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#biggest #disaster #down #fix #get

Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#love #love-story #magic #beauty

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#capacity #clue #discovered #editorial #going