#tory

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. ↗

— Aaliyah

#album #aspect #every #i #liked

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#book #corner #curl #dusty #habit

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #complaints #enough #first #going

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#country #dear #history #iran #our

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me. ↗

— Todd Akin

#becomes #climate #contains #control #defines

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. ↗

— Josef Albers

#art school #artists #development #had #i

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #said #skill #storytelling

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? ↗

— Mitch Albom

#books #dark #dysfunctional #everybody #favorite