Event Significance Quotes

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

The conventions have become meaningless. They’re manufactured events

I've always thought Wrestlemania is a special event that brings the best out of everybody, whether it's the wrestlers or the broadcasters or whomever, and I still believe that.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

That WWE Championship should be in the main event of every pay-per-view, and it upsets me when I see that it's not.

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.

A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.

As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.