Quotes having the keyword Short
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: believe, best, closer, different, form, novel, novels, perhaps, poetry, seem, short, spirit, stories, story , than It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: around, form, grew, narrative, past, probably, remember, short, stories, story, tend, things, time, told, up, why , writer There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: certain, joy, off, pull, reward, sense, short, stories, things, wonderful , writing You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: because, best, clued, constructed, disappointing, find, into, kind, most, novels, own, short, stories, their, them , world I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
by Victoria Woodhull (Activist, American , born in 1838) keywords: am, change, constitutional, day, every, free, inalienable, long, love, lover, may, natural, period, please, right, short , whom The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: conversations, cuts, most, observations, own, romance, serious, short, telephone, weighty , which By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
by John Woolman (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: armies, been, breaking, countries, enraged, flourishing, great, grief, laid, many, merciless, more, numbers, perished, poverty, pressed, short, time , waste To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
by Neil Young (Musician, Canadian , born in 1945) keywords: freedoms, going, our, period, protect, relinquish, seems, short, some , time For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
by Cao Yu (Playwright, Chinese , born in 1910) keywords: always, best, during, just, life, remains, short, too, try, will, write , writer I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
by Michael Zaslow (Actor, American , born in 1944) keywords: bring, feelings, home, hurt, infidelity, much, myself, negative, sell, short, spouse, want, your , yourself I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
by Sarah Zettel (Author, American , born in 1966) keywords: days, fantasy, fiction, horror, mostly, novelist, science, short, stories, these , written A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
by Johann Georg Zimmermann (Writer, Swiss , born in 1728) keywords: better, discourse, expressed, lesson, long, moral, sayings, short , than What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.
by David Zucker (Director, American , born in 1947) keywords: around, attention, enough, get, good, just, kind, passed, read, short, some, then, town, video , would In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
by Stefan Zweig (Writer, Austrian , born in 1881) keywords: during, fleeting, history, moments, prevail, reason, reconciliation, short , which
