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This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗


— John Barnes


#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. ↗


— Cory Doctorow


#cycle #deconstruct #fiction #i #part

I've been taking longer to write stories lately. ↗


— Greg Egan


#i #lately #longer #stories #taking

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. ↗


— Rahm Emanuel


#beat #certain #doing #exchange #exist

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. ↗


— Nora Ephron


#day #life #mother #next #one day

Television's not going read stories to you. ↗


— Kurt Loder


#read #stories #television #you

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted. ↗


— Jeff Gannon


#believed #briefings #bush #house #i

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. ↗


— John Stossel


#away #bankrupt #close #creative #creative people

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. ↗


— Rex Stout


#ball #ball game #ballplayers #detective #detective stories

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them. ↗


— Joe Lando


#done #enjoy #i #lot #romantic






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