Short Fiction Quotes
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Short Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.
— Evan Adam Ang
Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand.
— Judy Budnitz
You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better
— Mary Papas
I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else.
— Siobhan Davis
Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet".
— Christopher J. Pumphrey
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.
— Kelly Link
Dear family,I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine — Koh Choon Hwee
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
— Walker Percy
We're still looking for the Messiah, so I usually invite myself over to someone's house who's found him.
— Dan Salerno
I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.
— Siobhan Davis
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
— William L.K.
He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.
— John Howard Matthews
I am unbelievably nervous.It is most unlike me.
This girl is really messing with my mojo. — Siobhan Davis
The dictator's black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons — Zoe S. Roy
You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution.
— Judy Budnitz
As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.
— Ken Liu
What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time.
— Judy Budnitz
It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep.
— Siobhan Davis
Don't ruin a good story with the facts.
— Jerry Guarino
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.
— Mick Garris
As a writer, I marinate, speculate, and hibernate.
— Trisha Sugarek
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
— Gillian Jacobs
Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.
— John Hopkins
Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.
— Lawrence Block
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
— William Gibson
The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.
— Henry James
Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin.
— Isabelle Hardesty
I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse.
— Philip Palmer
I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me.
— Siobhan Davis
When I am perfect, I will be allowed to leave.
— Damien Angelica Walters
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
— Deborah Eisenberg
Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.
— John Hopkins
They've made her something else now.
— Damien Angelica Walters
I told you. I've been watching." She twirled, her arms outstretched. "Watching, watching, watching.
— A.F. Stewart
An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.
— Siobhan Davis
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.
— George Saunders
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
— Elizabeth Moon
He let out a short laugh. You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?
— James Dashner
Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.
— R. Barri Flowers
Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius.
— James L. Rubart
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.
— Ann Leckie
If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.
— Alexandar Tomov
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
— Helen Dunmore
Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth.
— John Hopkins
Violet carved her hate into her flesh one name at a time.
— Damien Angelica Walters
The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think.
— Paul W.S. Bowler
Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!
— Christina Scalise
The only man she ever loved. And hated.
— Mary Papas
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
— Sarah Zettel
A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
You know Dahmer was a cannibal. You think he was a zombie?"Tom smirked. "I'm no expert, but not all cannibals are zombies. — H.D. Timmons
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
— Ryan Sean O'Reilly
She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.
— Alice Hoffman
An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.
— Karen Azinger
What happens when I click this-- will Facebook know about it?
— Michael Filimowicz
I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold. (Humans)
— Robert Emmett
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
— Helen McCloy
The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.
— John Howard Matthews
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
— Ron Carlson
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
— Nicholas Royle
All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.
— Karen Azinger
The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.
— Stephen Harker
Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do itlove yourself — Kurt Vonnegut
