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“Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.”

Stories Voice Fiction Childhood Sorrow Offers Adults Contemporary Realms Affliction Geography Seductive Contemporary Fiction

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.”

World Book Matter Stories Girl Drink Taste Offers

Book:Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (light novel)

Source: Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (light novel)

“When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.”

Stories Acting Offers Hollywood Entertainment Activism Replaced Sermons Yarn

Author:Ilana Mercer

“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.”

“Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.”

Giving Stories Answers Perspective Offers

Author:Dan B. Allender

“Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.”

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Book:Thrones, Dominations

Source: Thrones, Dominations