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Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.