Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

Red Queen

Maybe destiny isn't something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows.

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

Ron Carlson Writes a Story

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

The Stories of John Cheever

To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

The Story of Forgetting

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Could there be anything more sad and more lonely than remembering what terrible things the future will bring?

The Story of Forgetting

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

The Story of Lucy Gault

We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.

The Summer We Read Gatsby

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

The Story of Beautiful Girl

We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.

The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

The Story of My Life

Any amount of theology can be smuggled into people's minds under cover of romance without them knowing it.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

The Story of Liberty

A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II