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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever Picture Quote #1

NOVEL, n. A short story padded Picture Quote #1

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening Picture Quote #1

Read a short story every day Picture Quote #1

Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man’s mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind Picture Quote #1

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived Picture Quote #1

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One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story Picture Quote #1

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa Picture Quote #1

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn’t see Picture Quote #1

I used to take my short stories to girls’ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? Picture Quote #1

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother’s hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word ‘goat’ looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed Picture Quote #1

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, ‘And now... My Novel!,’ which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph Picture Quote #1

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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he’s a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he’s a novel Picture Quote #1

Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him Picture Quote #1

I worked on ‘Blue Peter’ and ‘Tonight’ and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I’d had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965 Picture Quote #1

Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row Picture Quote #1

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, ‘I never want to see you again.’ Picture Quote #1

I think it’s a short story writer’s duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story Picture Quote #1

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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful Picture Quote #1

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder Picture Quote #1

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories Picture Quote #1

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story Picture Quote #1

Having judged a few competitions, it’s clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers Picture Quote #1

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story Picture Quote #1

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I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck Picture Quote #1

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up Picture Quote #1

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout Picture Quote #1

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration Picture Quote #1

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night Picture Quote #1

The short story is the literature of the nomad Picture Quote #1

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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever (Short Story Quotes) NOVEL, n. A short story padded (Short Story Quotes) The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening (Short Story Quotes) Read a short story every day (Short Story Quotes) Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man’s mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind (Short Story Quotes) Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived (Short Story Quotes) One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story (Short Story Quotes) A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa (Short Story Quotes) A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn’t see (Short Story Quotes) I used to take my short stories to girls’ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? (Short Story Quotes) When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother’s hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word ‘goat’ looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed (Short Story Quotes) I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, ‘And now... My Novel!,’ which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph (Short Story Quotes) Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he’s a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he’s a novel (Short Story Quotes) Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him (Short Story Quotes) I worked on ‘Blue Peter’ and ‘Tonight’ and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I’d had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965 (Short Story Quotes) Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. (Short Story Quotes) I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, ‘I never want to see you again.’ (Short Story Quotes) I think it’s a short story writer’s duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. (Short Story Quotes) The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful. (Short Story Quotes) Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. (Short Story Quotes) Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories. (Short Story Quotes) A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. (Short Story Quotes) Having judged a few competitions, it’s clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. (Short Story Quotes) Women want love to be a novel, men a short story (Short Story Quotes) I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck (Short Story Quotes) I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up (Short Story Quotes) The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout (Short Story Quotes) A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration (Short Story Quotes) To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night (Short Story Quotes) The short story is the literature of the nomad (Short Story Quotes)

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