"Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story."

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Ben Bova

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.”

Source : Hiroshima ch. 1 (1946)
“It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yogaâ€¦ Itâ€™s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.”
“Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.”
“I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.”
“If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.”
“Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.”
“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
“the heart never grows old.”

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