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#stories

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Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.


Arthur Christiansen


#cannot #first #first time #flow #good

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.


Brian P. Cleary


#beginning #books #death #done #end

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.


Glenn Close


#amazes #every #full #house #many

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.


Daniel Clowes


#comics #figure #i #i remember #less

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.


Joely Fisher


#great #hours #i #listening #meeting

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.


Joan Collins


#away #because #compositions #i #little

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.


Ann Curry


#affect #difference #drives #hear #i

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.


Jhonen Vasquez


#always #being #idea #johnny #slave

everything in our culture tells men and boys to avoid any interest, activity or community dominated by women - and when article after article insists that boys are reading less than girls; when the pop cultural discourse shies away from portraying boys as readers, or closely associates male reading with male unpopularity and outcastness; when the humanities is widely touted as being the feminine alternative to the masculine sciences; when finally, after centuries of exclusion, girls are actually getting a break at something, the consequence is that boys are keeping away in droves. [...]Having been raised to exclude girls from manly pursuits, boys are also reluctant to pursue female ones. If that means reading – and in some cases, sadly, it does, reading and other sedentary or indoor hobbies being viewed as the antithesis of sports, and therefore by extension the enemy of all things masculine – then writing more boy-centric books won’t help. (Unless, of course, your ultimate long-term plan is to take reading away from girls and return it to boys, in which case, you fail everything.) If, on the other hand, you want boys and girls to be reading with equal passion and in equal numbers, then a very clear alternative presents itself: teach your boys that there’s nothing wrong with girls, or girl things, period. Take away the stigma, and let everyone read without judgement. Stories are genderless, no matter who writes or stars in them. And if we can’t bear to teach our teenagers that, then we need to seriously rethink our sstatus as an equal and fair society.


Foz Meadows


#equality #gender #rasiing-boys #stories #teaching-boys-to-read

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.


Al Franken


#biases #bigger #conservative #cover #doing






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