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We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

— Lauren Groff

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

— Gilda Radner

Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.

— Trip Adler

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

— Rebecca Makkai

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

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

— Steve Breen

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

— Siegfried Lenz

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

— Gore Vidal

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

— Denise Richards

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.

— Jim Butcher

I like it when stories are left open.

— Alan Rickman