That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then … - Joshuah Bearman

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I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

Joshuah Bearman

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

Disappointing, Realize, Realizing, Stories, Story

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I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

Hundred, Ideas, Keep, Reading, Stories

I am in communication with almost everybody I've done a story about. I have a fantasy that if I ever strike it rich, I'll have a big party and fly all of these people there, and they'll be roaming around the party - Billy Mitchell, Master Legend, Santa Tim, Rio DiAngelo, Mr. Romance circa 2007, and so on.

Communication, Mitchell, Party, People, Roaming Around, Santa

You exist in the minds of other people.

Exist, Mind, Minds, People

People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.

Ideas, People, Stuck

I don't think that the people in my stories are lying to themselves. Well, some of them are - everybody is at some level. But there is something about how they all inhabit a narrative of their own making.

Everybody, Lying, Narrative, People, Think, Thinking

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Robert Benchley

I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed to return. They say, "Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope," and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.

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Townes Van Zandt

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things
And the only words that are worth remembering.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.

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Sharon Salzberg

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

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Arthur C. Clarke

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

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