#tory

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. ↗

— William Shatner

#attempts #could #fiction #mystique #out

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. ↗

— William Shatner

#blank #character #creative #creative art #ending

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#john #short-story #writer

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hegel #history #learn #man #never

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#almost #always #best #last #left

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dwindled #early #great #i #magazines

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#astronaut #found #genie #her #history