#tory

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#attainable #certainly #closure #contributes #doubt

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#i #i love #last #love #russian

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#government #i #i think #longer #participatory

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#commercial #crashing #ever #here #history

I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#biggest #business #contributor #here #i

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. ↗

— Ed Wood

#called #causing #chance #could #entire

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#accomplished #biography #comes #forebears #history

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#came #colleagues #going #how #i

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#beginning #could #end #political #political system