The shorter and the plainer the better. — Beatrix Potter
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters — Julio Cortazar
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. — Lorrie Moore
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. — Emma Donoghue
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices. — Amos Oz
Short Short Quotes
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. — Oscar Wilde
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander The Great
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. — Alan Turing
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. — Proverbs
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. — Hugh Hefner
Short Image Quotes
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. — Saadi Shirazi
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
My arms are too short to box with God. — Johnny Cash
I saw a giraffe with a short neck
That was sad
Or a deer — Bo Burnham
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Passion For Writing Quotes
Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike or write a few short stories. Also, find good people and surround yourself with them. Most importantly, always believe you will, unequivocally. — Sarah Silverman
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. — Faye Dunaway
You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders. — Sefi Atta
Life is short. Spend it with people who make you laugh and feel loved.
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. — Devdutt Pattanaik
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. — Jackie Collins
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks. — Wolfgang Puck
Life is too short to silence your personality.
Jarrid Wilson has a passion and heart for God that is contagious. His genuine faith comes through powerfully in his teaching and writing. 30 Words points to the God of all wonder and grace in a way that will expand your faith and experience of God. — Jud Wilhite
If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write? — JoAnn Ross
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are. — Charles Koch
You do bits and you fake anger and you write a bit and you have passion for it. Then you do it too many times and you have to work up the anger... and I've never had to do that with Dr. Drew Pintsky. Dr. Drew is to medicine what David Blaine is to science. — Doug Stanhope
Short Story Quotes
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. — Raymond Carver
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. — Lynn Abbey
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout. — Julio Cortazar
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself. — Brian D. McLaren
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 — Ambrose Bierce
Life is very short. If people aren't decent, kind, accountable, responsible, or responsive, man up and get rid of them.
To vary your inspiration, consider varying your inputs. Turn the sound off to watch a film, listen to the same song on repeat, read only the first word of each sentence in a short story, arrange stones by size or color, learn to lucid dream. Break habits. Look for differences. Notice connections. — Rick Rubin
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor. — Gene Wilder
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — V. S. Pritchett
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined. — Paolo Bacigalupi
Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short. — Terry Pratchett
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life. — Elizabeth Goudge
Life is short. To just "Do things" is insane. Live with a purpose. Live for a reason.
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. — Aelred of Rievaulx
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance. — Henry Watson Fowler
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Bill Shoemaker
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. — Mark Twain
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist. — Cecil Taylor
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. — Euripides
it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. — Ernest Hemingway
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy
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