I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another goo…

Amy Hempel
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I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.32, Simon and Schuster
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. ✨ Amy Hempel (2006). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.378, Simon and Schuster
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.107, Simon an … ▶
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.275, Simon and Schust … ▶
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the me … ▶

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

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