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I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form. — Nicholas Royle

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark

What have we got?" Ashford said. "Short form."
"It's fucking weird, sir," Chan said. — James S.A. Corey

There is no modern literary form which is as little understood as is the short story. The — Charles Raymond Barrett

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible. — Marion Vernoux

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. — Thomas Hood

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights) — Jerrold Mundis

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver

Rowan just asked, "Did you have a favorite form?"
Lysandra's grin was nothing short of wicked. "I liked anything with claws and big, big fangs. — Sarah J. Maas

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing. — Lynn Coady

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. — Deborah Eisenberg

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman

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

Saving" in short, in the modern world, is only another form of spending. — Henry Hazlitt

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form. — Henry James

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. — Roger Zelazny

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance. — Joseph O'Connor

Short form media is reductionist by nature. — Jon Krakauer

It's nothing short of a whole new brain ... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life. — Daniel H. Pink

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story. — Sarah Waters

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. — Irwin Shaw

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings. — George Saunders

Clear moments are so short.
There is much more darkness. More
ocean than terra firma. More
shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form. — Rebecca Makkai

As a form, the picture book has a similar elegance to the short story. — Gabrielle Zevin

George stopped. It was such a short, little question, but she couldn't make her mouth form the sounds.
Mom, what if I'm a girl? — Alex Gino

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form. — Tobias Wolff

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. — Madeleine Albright

There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form. — Andreas Deja

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. — Bertrand Russell

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan