#tories

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#amount #caught #corrections #could #failed

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#just #people #report #right #right thing

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#could #early #early age #i #losing

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#age #because #being #difficult #dramas

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#china #closer #costs #eastern #eastern europe

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#credible #deny #either #hebrews #hero

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. ↗

— Judy Blume

#creative #creative process #enjoy #i #process

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. ↗

— Judy Blume

#anything #become #could #even #grow