#stories

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#encourage #fine #long #people #stories

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#first #gray #kissing #linda #scene

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#enter #good #hemingway #his #into

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#bible #cartoons #doing #first #i

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#called #could #doing #favorite #i

For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do we understand fairy stories and law? ↗

— Peter Watson

#lyotard #science #beauty

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#author #focusing #i #i always #ignorant

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out. ↗

— David Antin

#common #damn #dog #doing #even

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. ↗

— David Antin

#different #every #every time #many #narratives

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#been #big #came #circuit #france