#tori

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#broad #circumstance #continents #flowering #forests

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #between #conflicts #consequence #creation

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#ink #outline #paper #territories #their

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. ↗

— Terri Windling

#because #being #best #editor #editorial

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! ↗

— Marie Windsor

#detective stories #doing #film #film noir #i

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#hated #historical #i #novels

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#exotic #get #redheads #stereotyped #totally

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#did #five #i #just #know

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arrived #buster #carrey #clowns #comedy

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#attainable #certainly #closure #contributes #doubt