Quotes of: Short-stories Keyword

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Theodore Sturgeon

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

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Lynn Abbey

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: ‘Quick! Quick! Quick!’ And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT To make a long story short I leave all my possessions to the Municipal Slaughterhouse to the Special Unit of the Police Department to Lucky Dog Lotto So now if you want you can shoot

Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." ( )

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

Before her lay the enemy. The only end guaranteed if she forgot that fact? Death - or worse. "Strangely enough, approval from those who don't even bother to introduce themselves before commenting on my shortcomings...tends not to make much of an impr...

The Rooftop: A Short Story of the Entwined Realms

I love you. The words reverberated between them, sinking into their skin, scored onto their hearts as they staked their claims to each other’s bodies, surrendering themselves and possessing each other, a tangle of limbs and lust and love, coiled to...

Four Chances: A Short Story Quartet

Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

Alarms and Discursions

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

The Goldfinch

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

Alfonso Cuaron

There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the short short the very idea of character seems to lose its significance, seems in fact to drop out of sight. We see human figures in a m...

Short Shorts

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

The Complete Short Stories

In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.

Caged View: A Collection of Urban Fantasy Short Stories

The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

The Necklace and Other Short Stories

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

The Short Stories

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, ]

Original Maupassant Short Stories

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.

The Other Side: a Collection of Short Stories

There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two ...

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One