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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

— Karen Thompson Walker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

— Amy Hempel

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

— Sean Bean

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.

— Lorrie Moore

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

— Michael Arndt

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.

— Barry Ritholtz

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

— Eudora Welty

Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

— Nancy Kress

A story is how we construct our experiences.

— Doris Lessing

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

— Diane Mott Davidson

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