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I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

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

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

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

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

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.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.