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.
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As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
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.
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
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