Richard Powers quotation
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” #quotation
Writing the Future
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” #quotation
The thickness of your skin shall be seven spans — which is to say that you shall be proof against anger, offensive actions and criticism. Your heart shall be filled with peace and good will and your mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the Confederacy. With endless patience you …
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know, but what you can find out about. #quotation
The great revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. #quotation
Thousands of Boyles, Clarks and Newtons have Probably been lost to the world, and lived and died in Ignorance and meanness, merely for want of being Placed in favourable Situations, and Injoying Proper Advantages. (Sister of Ben Franklin) #quotation
It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. #quotation