Write a story ...
... is a way of observing the created world and to use the senses so that force them to discover things as meaningful as possible.
... is a way of observing the created world and to use the senses so that force them to discover things as meaningful as possible.
... a good story can not be reduced, you can only expand. A story is good when you continue to see more and more into it and yet escapes us. In fiction, two plus two is always more than four.
... the peculiar problem of the storyteller is how to make the action he describes reveal the mystery of existence as much as possible. Has only a small space for it, and not by means of statements. Have to get through what it shows, not what he says ...
... a story is a way of saying something that can not be said otherwise.
From: Flannery O'Connor, "To write stories" . In : Mystery and Manners.
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