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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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Amy Hempel

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

Character, Effects, Foremost, People, Stories, Story
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It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

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I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?

Start, Stories, Story, Thing, Thinking, Writing

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

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I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

Home, Life, Looks, Nothing, Save, Thinking
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