"Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things."

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Source : "Don’t Write What You Know". www.theatlantic.com. August 2011.

Bret Anthony Johnston

#Stories Quotes

“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”

Source : "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Morse". "Inspector Morse/ The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", www.imdb.com. 1987.
“Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.”
“Iâ€™ve always felt almost human. Iâ€™ve always known that thereâ€™s something about me thatâ€™s different than other dogs. Sure, Iâ€™m stuffed into a dogâ€™s body, but thatâ€™s just the shell. Itâ€™s whatâ€™s inside thatâ€™s important. The soul. And my soul is very human.”
“Exuberance is beauty.”

Source : William Blake (2017). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.11, Litres
“My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.”

Source : "God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap". www.nytimes.com. January 4, 2005.
“With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch”
“My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people might die as a result. Thus, I personally oppose capital punishment.”
“The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.”

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