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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. ↗


— Lisa See


#novelists #reading #storytellers #storytelling #writers

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean. ↗


— Sarah Dessen


#worry

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying. ↗


— Peter L. Bergen


#listen #often #people #saying

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them. ↗


— Al Franken


#gay #homophobia #homosexuality #liberalism #liberals

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. ↗


— Eudora Welty


#eudora-welty #listening #storytelling #writing #storytelling

The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth. ↗


— Richelle E. Goodrich


#enjoyment #novelist #pleasure #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way. ↗


— Bjork


#embarrassed #get #got #i #last

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. ↗


— Steve Lacy


#duke ellington #ellington #fell #hearing #i

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that. ↗


— Steve Lacy


#armstrong #better #free #hear #listen

You know it's easy here to buy journalists. ↗


— Emile Lahoud


#easy #here #journalists #know #you






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