Quotes on short-stories

When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.

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

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I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's world.

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

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Thank you father, thank you. I know you watched me from above and protected me. I promise I shall serve the Magnarian Confederation with all my body and soul. I shall dedicate myself fully to our confederation, the family that you so loved. And I love it too. I shall protect, love and respect it always. This is my promise and commitment. Thank you

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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...

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A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

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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 out.

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Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.

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Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to say. I'm not sure what is planned, if, you go against their wishes. But, I'm sure you're smart and won't test them.

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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

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Remember this above all else: Never, ever appear like you once were, not to anyone.You have entered a new phase, but you must forgive yourself to enter. And you have to remember new lessons of restraint, for they will always apply.You are now always your own private garden.You are now always the only one responsible for nourishing the soil and replenishing the seed.You alone tend you, you alone water. This is what I say for the tending of the sweet, resplendent places.- Waiting: Instructions in Texts and Pictures

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I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.

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