#tories

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#book #children #effect #engaged #every

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#because #i #i think #inventive #new

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting. ↗

— Sean Parker

#because #get #harder #heard #i

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#another #aspect #bottom #day #doing

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told. ↗

— Marc Davis

#been #before #done #had #never

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#come #gardening #helping #helping people #hindsight

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#examples #fidelity #friends #full #histories

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#goes #gospel #i #i write #inform

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#goes #gospel #i #i write #inform

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#i #i think #people #should #stories