Short-stories Quotes

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the ...

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there ...

She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace o...

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any o...

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at i...

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and nov...

The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I ...

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban li...

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet.‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’‘Oh,...

She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came wit...

There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enor...

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneas...

It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a strange...

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the ...

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

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emot...

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he...

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me...

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I ...

I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the nove...

The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . ....