The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.
My story is one of millions, and the others aren't often told.
I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street.
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.
I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.
In my experience of the men of action I have met - whether from the Second World War or Iraq or Vietnam - they often had to do things that they would rather not reflect upon afterwards. This is perhaps one reason why the story of the Bielskis remained untold for so long.
I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.
About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.
All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don't always know about.
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.
Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
