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> [In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/in-commercial-fiction-especially-everything-in-the-story-usually/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

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## More by Nancy Kress

> [Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/characterization-is-not-divorced-from-plot-not-a-coat-of-paint-you/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/you-must-learn-to-be-three-people-at-once-writer-character-and-reader/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/some-writers-find-that-they-don-t-know-their-themes-until-they-ve/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/religious-reverence-for-one-s-own-job-even-if-the-job-is-worth-doing/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/what-characters-do-must-grow-out-of-who-they-are-and-who-they-are-is/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/in-commercial-fiction-especially-everything-in-the-story-usually/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [ “…Boredom \[is\] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/boredom-is-a-moral-failing-the-mark-of-a-mind-insufficiently-stocked/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/changers-are-characters-who-alter-in-significant-ways-as-a-result-of/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/every-paragraph-should-accomplish-two-goals-advance-the-story-and/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/you-think-intelligence-and-grit-can-succeed-by-themselves-but-i-m/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/there-are-two-wrong-reactions-to-a-rejection-slip-deciding-it-s-a/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [“Miri once told me that there were only four important ques­tions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/miri-once-told-me-that-there-were-only-four-important-ques-tions-you/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/anything-said-in-upper-crust-british-automatically-sounded-intelligent/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [“Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/things-got-said-the-kinds-of-embarrassing-things-that-don-t-go-away/)

[Nancy Kress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-kress/)

> [“The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet she didn't;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-kress/the-strings-in-her-mind-grew-flatter-calmer-the-shapes-in-the/)

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