Short Story Quotes
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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
When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
— Tushar Upreti
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
— Chuck Palahniuk
She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.
— Maile Meloy
Every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
— Elizabeth Bowen
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
I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.
— J.A. Willoughby
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. [Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857] — Henry David Thoreau
I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable.
— Haruki Murakami
To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Long story short: I don't know shit about whatever dancing monkey of the moment is amusing the plebes.
— Antonio Garcia Martinez
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
— Robert Sheckley
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
— Peter Riegert
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
— Andrew Vachss
Geo, let me tell you a short story. Nanny State married Big Brother and then they sat back and bathed in the power ...and counted the cash. Smiling
— John F. Leonard
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
— Herbert Gold
At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.
— Michael Chabon
life is not about distance , it's about direction
— Divya Prakash Dubey
As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.
— Ken Liu
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
The film was based on a short story written by a customs officer, and was based on his experiences.
— Anupama Chopra
I am content when writing short stories.
— Sarah Mazucci
She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.
— Laura Furman
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
— Duane Michals
A failed short story is a few weeks of fruitless work; a failed novel is a dead child.
— The New York Writers Workshop
My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever ... and never did publish it.
— Cullen Bunn
I can write a short story in six words. For sale: baby shoes, never used
— Ernest Hemingway,
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
— Isobelle Carmody
My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.
— S.C. Parris
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
— Donald Hall
I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.
— Frank Tuttle
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
— Annie Proulx
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
— Richard Russo
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
— Abraham Maslow
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
— Ryan Sean O'Reilly
They were really children that morning. By nightfall none of them were.First line from Patrick's short story - The Quarry-gang Kids. — Patrick McCusker
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
— Emma Donoghue
She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
— Susan Engberg
Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases.
— Gabriele Wohmann
His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.
— Elizabeth Morgan
The short story is the literature of the nomad.
— John Cheever
The only way to know life is living it.
— John Northcutt Young
Long story short: The end.
— Paul F. Tompkins
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
— Eudora Welty
happened - but I am pretty sure my unconscious mind played a role in it all. Well, to make a long story short, the cat
— Leslie Riopel
...Long story longer...
— Dana Gould
Toraf nods in all seriousness. "Humans eat sand. That's why they spend so much time on land".
— Anna Banks
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
— V.S. Pritchett
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
— Katherine Mansfield
Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.
— George R R Martin
Shh, mi amor. The neighbors will hear and call the police.
— Kate Richards
E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again.
— Gabrielle Zevin
I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' would be premiering in Toronto.
— Keir Gilchrist
Exactly. You like me. The word you use was like. You'll find someone better than me. Someone you'll love and not just like.
— Kristine Cuevas
A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.
— John L'Heureux
Matchsticks A Not Quite the Fairy Tale Short Story May Sage
— Aimee Easterling
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A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
— David Sedaris
I am thinking of killing myself'' Hmm...okay — Mary Papas
I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon.
— Steven Wright
I'm so glad I put a hot, naked guy on my Christmas wish list. I just didn't think Santa would actually deliver one.
— Patricia W. Fischer
Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.
— Haidji
And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top
— John Ajvide Lindqvist
It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. — Edgar Allan Poe
Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.
— Stuart Haddon
