Eudora WeltyWriting a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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I have always been fascinated by how storytellers can make things happen in their stories. It is like they are able to tap into the universal subconscious, where all of our thoughts and feelings are preserved in an orderly fashion. The job of a writer in fiction is to string together the threads in order to make the reader fall in love with the story.
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