Quotes of: Short-time Keyword

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Daniel Radcliffe

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Franz Grillparzer

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

Geraldine Brooks

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

Craig Ferguson

Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

Charles F. Glassman

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

Claire McCaskill

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

Conor Oberst

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Jane Birkin

I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

Dolly Parton

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

Daniel Radcliffe

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

Douglas Sirk

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

Daria Werbowy

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

Elliott Abrams

My favorite Hepburn moment is in 'Sabrina,' when she steps off a boat in white shorts and a plaid shirt. Chic, classic, and unfussy.

Emilia Clarke

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

Ellen DeGeneres

I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.

Ben Schwartz

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

Helen Dunmore