Simon Toyne Quotes

Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

Simon Toyne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 29, 1968

Topics

BrilliantStorytellingQuestEpic

I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.

Joanna Coles

ShoesChallengeFindingReal

We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had.

Jocko Willink

AttitudeBestBookOwnershipBecause

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Jo Brand

PeopleChristianTryingBackPoor

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

Andrew Buchan

ChallengeI AmMeLookGoActor

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

Melissa Bank

GoodGoalsDownKindMapFollow

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Max Weber

EthicsClubCannotCultExchange

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Maurice Sendak

DeathThoughtKidAbout

If we don't get our relationship with the emerging People's Republic of China right, that is something that could lead to global catastrophe.

Michael Hayden

RelationshipPeopleRightLeadChina

I'm not a first-place person.

Amy Sedaris

Person

Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.

Amy Sedaris

GayKnowForgetCraftWellStraight

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Amy Cuddy

FamilyMomentPresentDownNowOut

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.

Stephen Hunter

WarEvilEnemyMoviesBecomeNever

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