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I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

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.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

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.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

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

Every story has its demands.

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 always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.