A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
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