#tory

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#elegant #go #hand #storytelling #style

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#device #fascinating #found #i #i think

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. ↗

— Allen Tate

#cannot #confederate #connected #connection #dead

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#beginning #character #comedies #did #every

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#contributions #different #different players #great #made

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#civics #equality #find #history #learn

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#bernstein #carrying #coal #decide #off

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

#cut #draft #i #motivations #paper