“Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.” ThinkingWaySometimesStoriesTricksNew WaysTelling StoriesPonies Author:Sara Paretsky
“The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.” EndsStoriesHappensIncrediblesThings HappenTricksHolmes Author:Rex Stout
“Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.” FirstsStillsStoriesLastsCoursesModernTricksDetectivesDetective Stories Author:Rex Stout
“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.” BelieveLittlesLongI CanStoriesLastsGamesDesignMonthsWastePaperComputerResourcesTricksRecoveryZeroAssociationFewerChipsRecycling Author:Steve Wozniak
“Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.” IfsWayMindDifferentStoriesArtistEgoSakeTricksDifferent WaysIllustrationIllustrators Author:Maurice Sendak
“My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.” LongStoriesWould BeFatherLinesCasesTricksPeculiarStorytellerLong LifeObsessiveYiddishLong Story Author:Stephen Greenblatt