The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
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.
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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.
As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.
Some people say 'life is too short,' but yet constantly procrastinating as if life on earth is forever.
They say that 'life is too short,' but I must say that if you live each day happily and productively, it is quite long enough.
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.
I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.
When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"
June: I don't go to movies. Griffin Mill: Why not? June: Life is too short.
Mason: Marcus is going to get better. Grace: I think I am too.
Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.
