When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us ou...
Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stori...
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems to diminish the book’s authority, making the author seem like somebody who is just hangin...
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, Listen. I'm with you on most of th...
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to m...
Wait, Connie said again. A . . . what? Am I going to sparkle or something? God, no, said Irwin and I together.
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do -- we do it all the time.
You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)
I been starin' at the back a Jimmy Nelson's head for four grades now and I been noticin' how his blond hair curls against the skin on his neck and the birthmark shaped like a half-moon I wanna press m...
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