I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
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Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.
With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
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.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.