“The horizontal, that is the spatial and temporal connection of events, is dissolved; only the vertical, the connection of each event with the divine plan, which ordained it, holds.”— Erich Auerbach
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account...”— Julian Barnes
“I have always wanted to tell my story, or, more to the point, my side of the story.”— Faith Ringgold
“My operas are about a kind of landscape of characters and events. They’re not about a particular story, like a story that you would tell your friend.”— Robert Ashley
“Oh, a pitiful story! the Stranger said, And a pitiful story it seems to be.”— Richard Harris Barham
“You can't show a beetle crossing the street and call it a story. It has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The end must be a resolution, not just a stop.”— Don Bluth
“The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.”— Charles Stuart Calverley
“The story of the Goddess is an alternative to the story of the hero who must leave home and kill the dragon to be a man.”— Carol P. Christ