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She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only — John Irving, A Widow for One Year
My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness f — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind. — Davee Jones
When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener. — Sonia Rumzi, Simple Conversation
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call — C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature