What is story?

Famous quotes containing the word story:

“Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Even a nine story pagoda must be built up level by level.”
—Chinese proverb.

“From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political end justifying almost any means. The full story of his confirmation raises questions not only about who lied and why, but, more important, about what happens when politics becomes total war and the truth—and those who tell it—are merely unfortunate sacrifices on the way to winning.”
—Jane Mayer, U.S. journalist, and Jill Abramson b. 1954, U.S. journalist. Strange Justice, p. 8, Houghton Mifflin (1994)