Best quotes by David Means on Story

Checkout quotes by David Means on Story

• ‟ I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as much artistically. They're different beasts, but to tackle an expansive country like the United States, you're either going to write a big novel, or go in to various points on the map and write stories or poems.

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• ‟ I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

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• ‟ You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

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• ‟ It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

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• ‟ I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.

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• ‟ I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.

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• ‟ A short story collection can be as exciting as a novel. It is a real complete experience, like when you listen to a real good recording, a Beatles record, and there are so many good songs.

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