One Writer's Beginnings(1984)
“A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.”
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Diane Setterfield
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The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
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Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 13
Variant: No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Source: Different Seasons
“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
(1921–1990) Swiss author and dramatist
In Elyse Sommer, CurtainUp Reviews http://www.curtainup.com/wtf07.html, Williamstown Theatre Festival (Summer 2007)
Source: Physicists
“Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Eugene Paul Wigner
(1902–1995) mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Biographical memoir: "John von Neumann (1903 - 1957)" in Year book of the American Philosophical Society (1958); later in Symmetries and Reflections : Scientific Essays of Eugene P. Wigner (1967), p. 261
Context: A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. He could be blunt when necessary, but was never pompous. A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand. This fact colored many of von Neumann's moral judgments. "It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature." Only scientific intellectual dishonesty and misappropriation of scientific results could rouse his indignation and ire — but these did — and did almost equally whether he himself, or someone else, was wronged.