Quotes About Chronicles

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

WHEN SCHOLARS TALK ABOUT THE SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, they almost always mean printed books like Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles

Only much later did I understand that this raw material is the very marrow of literature, and that, from it, it's possible to create an interior narrative. I say "interior" because at that time chronicles were considered to be where truth was to be found. "Interior" expression had not yet been born.

And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets with a perfunctory mystery element dropped in like the olive in a martini. (The Simple Art of Murder)

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Somos contos contando contos. Nada.

Our history is written in our rocks just as surely as it is in monastic chronicles, census returns or the stones and bones of archaeological

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.

I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady

All these works of the imaginative inventions unfortunately got into chronicles, which were made into books which everybody respected and believed, principally because they were thick, hard to hold, tedious, and old.

Within mummies themselves lies the potential for greatness, be it great evil or great accomplishment, but titanic forces struggle to move them. Entire chronicles may hinge on that one fact.

7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters.

Lestat might be the hero of the Vampire Chronicles, but this one, Louis, was the tragic heart. Yet he seemed at long last to have achieved a kind of peace with the ghastly realities of his existence and the existence of all those around him who outranked him in power but not necessarily in insight or wisdom.

The Coven of the Articulate—A modern slang term popular among the Undead for the vampires whose stories appear in the Vampire Chronicles—particularly Louis, Lestat, Pandora, Marius, and Armand.

Quinn, the snappy dresser. Quinn, worthy fo be a subject in the Vampire Chronicles. Quinn, dressed for begging to be allowed in.

Now a young bachelor of seventeen is apt to make deep cuts with his penknife in the parchment of contracts, as the chronicles of scandal will tell you.

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

We want the Demon, you see, to extract from the dance of atoms only information that is genuine, like mathematical theorems, fashion magazines, blueprints, historical chronicles, or a recipe for ion crumpets, or how to clean and iron a suit of asbestos, and poetry too, and scientific advice, and almanacs, and calendars, and secret documents, and everything that ever appeared in any newspaper in the Universe, and telephone books of the future...

Did the chronicles of their lives collectively

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever BOOK ONE: LORD FOUL'S BANE BOOK TWO: THE ILLEARTH WAR BOOK THREE: THE POWER THAT PRESERVES The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant BOOK ONE: THE WOUNDED LAND BOOK TWO: THE ONE TREE BOOK THREE: WHITE GOLD WIELDER The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant BOOK ONE: THE RUNES OF THE EARTH BOOK TWO: FATAL REVENANT BOOK THREE: AGAINST ALL THINGS ENDING DAUGHTER OF REGALS AND OTHER TALES

Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.

Las crónicas de Indias, como lo sabe todo el que conoce el discurso de García Márquez al recibir el Premio Nobel, pueden muy bien ser el verdadero orden de la literatura latinoamericana.