Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as... →
Raymond Queneau
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told... →
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he... →
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't... →
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want... →
Matthew Quick
It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.
Lily Rabe
Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper... →
Tom Rachman
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Timothy Radcliffe