“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”
Jacqueline Woodson book Brown Girl Dreaming
Source: Brown Girl Dreaming
“Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.”
From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
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