#tori

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them. ↗

— Carl Barks

#cynicism #did #get #had #hell

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. ↗

— Mario Batali

#books #cakes #constantly #could #devoted

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#certainly #game #go #how #just

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. ↗

— Greg Bear

#beautiful #because #buried #childhood #childhood memories

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#created #dogma #ever #fantastic #historical

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#called #could #doing #favorite #i

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#book #each #four #individual #long

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#almost #animated #bored #film-makers #go

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#his #illustrative #master #reinforce #sam