#tories

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#love #stories #storytelling #tell #thing

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#aside #begin #complete #desk #drawer

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

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#details #entrepreneurs #great #listeners #often

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

— Alexander Pope

#examples #fidelity #friends #full #histories

Even victors are by victories undone. ↗

— John Dryden

#undone #victories #victors

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#clear #end #ending #hard #hard way

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#absolutely #american #around #back #both