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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.


Paul Theroux


#books #finding #four #great #i

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.


Paul Theroux


#another #books #call #central #corps

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.


Karen Armstrong


#another #back #encourage #good #good news

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.


Walter Bagehot


#escape #how #interests #only #reality

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.


Ben Bradlee


#bernstein #carrying #coal #decide #off

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'


Chelsea Clinton


#academic #adage #difference #grandmother #happens

Through their 'Making a Difference' franchise, I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.


Chelsea Clinton


#communities #continue #difference #excited #franchise

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.


Joel Coen


#becomes #both #certain #combined #discussed

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'


Ian Mcewan


#meet #read #revolting #said #somebody

I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt you have turned these pages without attention. I confess that I love them. Indeed, it often seems to me that of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; the rest, mercy, beauty, sleep, clean water and hot food (as the Ascian would have said) are all the work of the Increate. Thus, stories are small things indeed in the scheme of the universe, but it is hard not to love best what is our own—hard for me, at least.


Gene Wolfe


#beauty






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