#story

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. ↗

— Rex Stout

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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ↗

— Rex Stout

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I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#because #everybody #expert #grab #loneliness

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#could #culture #good #good job #help

We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#best friend #friend #like #love #love story

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

#cut #draft #i #motivations #paper

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

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