“Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.” LongStoriesPiecesHeardListeningHearingSentencesLong Story Author:Brian Eno
“Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain. Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.” IfsGivingTryingLooksMayLongDoePlayMomentsStoriesFoundMorningFailingRiversCaughtSunsetCyclesPassagesSmoothSunriseCaught UpTerrainCycle Of LifeLong Story Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.” FirstsLongStoriesFunnyAsksSilentRidiculousVersionsDumbRetreatMonasteriesLong Story Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.” ThinkingKnowsLongDifferentStoriesBigsTogetherFilmPiecesFinePhotographEndlessStrandsSnapshotsLong Story Author:Robert Bringhurst
“Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.” WritingLongImportantCharacterStoriesShapesLong Story Author:Tabitha King