“This story has no moral, this story has no end, this story only goes to show, that there ain’t no good in men…”
“Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the story done its job? Is it then a good story? If the story produces an effect other than the intended one, is it then a bad story? Can a story be said to produce an effect at all? Can a story actually do anything at all? ”
“This story has a happy ending.”
“There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.”
“Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, andthen goes on to the beginning, and concludes with themiddle...”