410 Quotes About Short-story

I am thinking of killing myself'''' Hmm...okay

There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the short short the very idea of character seems to lose its significance, seems in fact to drop out of sight. We see human figures in a momentary flash. We see them in fleeting profile. We see them in archetypal climaxes which define their mode of existence. Situation tends to replace character, representative condition to replace individuality.("Introduction")

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

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...

Curiosity overrode pain and I held the toy phone up to my ear. It sounded like static, but there was something else behind it. I pressed the phone closer to my ear."Your Daddy (static) bad (static) must (static) punished.

So a hit-man just walked up and rang the doorbell?""Essentially, yes," the conductor said."What did you do?""The only thing I could," the conductor said."Run?""No, invite him in for tea.

Sadly enough, sometimes you and Lenny are the only real human interactions that I have all day. The rest of the day I'm just like a machine that mechnically computes and producesAlso in "Stories and Scripts:An Anthology

She learned that there was an animal living inside her, something that celebrated when nature did its work upon the weak. She came to value that animal.

She didn’t want to hear his story. Everybody had one. Tragedy gets boring after a while.