#tories

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. ↗

— Larry Niven

#buy #five #got #i #kicking

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#risks #suffer #take #victories #will

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#action #brutal #character #grace #hard

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#appetite #become #cuts #deregulation #even

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. ↗

— Ben Okri

#conquer #fear #heart #know #make

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. ↗

— Ben Okri

#another #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

The greatest religions convert the world through stories. ↗

— Ben Okri

#greatest #religions #stories #through #world

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#imagination #stories #storytelling #imagination

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale. ↗

— Rabih Alameddine

#storytellers #life

. . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and sang as white birds in the trees Because the story of our life becomes our life Because each of us tells the same story but tells it differently and none of us tells it the same way twice . . (from, Why We Tell Stories) ↗

— Lisel Mueller

#poetry #why-we-tell-stories #life