Quotes & Sayings About Storytelling In The Things They Carried

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them
with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... — Eudora Welty

An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section. — Brittany Howard

I did a film called 'Floating' early on that had a scene which was similar to a real-life situation I was in at the time. It involved me having a conversation with my father, who was dying. It was close to home and it made me realise acting wasn't just making faces for the cameras, it was a real art form. — Norman Reedus

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed. — Stephen Root

Don't break your discipline, form it! — J.R. Rim

An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom. — Martin Luther

I would be his rock when his reason floated away. And he would be the person I needed to remind me that I was no longer alone in the world. — Belle Aurora

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. — Caleb Cushing

Impression of having seen me before. It was not till afterwards that I thought this rather characteristically dull of him. I drew him far away - I — Henry James

One of the reasons humans tended toward insanity was the weight of fear they carried. The blessings of storytelling, the handing down of knowledge and warnings, had a flip side. People carried the collective fears of their history, the biases of those long dead, the paranoias of other ages. Anna flashed — Nevada Barr

The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge