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• In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their… — Donald E. Westlake
• The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to… — Dinaw Mengestu
• There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story. — Tobias Wolff
• Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a… — David Eagleman
• I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story. — Frank Darabont
• The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story. — Richard Linklater
• I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and… — Susan Orlean
• The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey
• And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m… — Doris Salcedo
• And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell
• Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the… — Chris Crutcher
• There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving… — Richard Linklater

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