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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 matter enormously but...

—Colm Tóibín

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Dear family,I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

—Koh Choon

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All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.

—Karen Azinger

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Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency—a chaos—, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end...

—Richard Ford

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FictionOn-FictionShort-Stories
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On the Writing Process:”When in doubt, take it out.,

—Barbara DaCosta

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

—Edgar Allan

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For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle…. A page of good prose seems to me the...

—John Cheever

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Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

—Stefania Mattana

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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...

—Salman Rushdie

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Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

—Christopher Bram

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I am going to put you over my knee and spank you for being such a bad wife tonight. It will hurt, but you’re going to enjoy it a lot more than you’ll admit…

—Felicity Brandon

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I read your diary. I KNOW

—Mary Papas

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The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.

—Stephen Harker

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We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do not find Drakes’ path, or even an additional, we should come back straight...

—Chayada Welljaipet

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We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn’t for our longing for these things, I doubt...

—Junot Díaz

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

—Kiar

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In the course of this story, and very soon now, it will be necessary to make some disclosures about Mr. Krupper of a nature too coarse to be dealt with very directly in a work...

—Tennessee Williams

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Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet.‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’‘Oh, a writer, eh?’‘Yes.’‘Are you sure?’‘No, I’m not.’‘What do you write?’‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’‘A novel,...

—Charles Bukowski

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I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because...

—F. Scott

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

—John Connolly

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There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure.” – Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2

—Stefania Mattana

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I thought a lighthouse is out at sea.

—Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

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I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew...

—Christopher Hitchens

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Turn around.”Only two words, but they deliver such a sensual threat.I do as you ask without question. You are right behind me, breathing hard into the small of my neck, where I like to be...

—Felicity Brandon

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That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.

—Mary Papas

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I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories.

—Pushpa Rana

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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....

—Chayada Welljaipet

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Just above Tommy’s face were the Maiden and the Troll, two of his oldest wall people. The troll lived in a cave deep in the woods. He was big (Tommy knew the troll was even...

—Michael Kanuckel

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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…

—Lawrence Block

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The exhausted earth groaned and quivered under the monotonous glare of the sun. Spirals of heat rose from the ground as if from molten lava. A panting lizard crawled painfully over the fevered rock in...

—S. Rajaratnam

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I hate that I got dealt shitty parents! I hate how you make me feel like scum! I hate that you’re always running away from me! And I hate that I ever fucking gave you...

—Adriana Law

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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

—Edgar Allan

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Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.

—Joan Connor

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You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

—Stefania Mattana

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The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.

—Veronica Roth

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Let’s press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts:ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima, Shalamov, Babel, W. C. Williams.) In these short shorts the time span is extremely...

—Irving Howe

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Yes, strip. Take off all of your clothes. I want to see you naked. Now please.”I feel dazed, yet I let my jacket fall to the floor, and start work on my shirt buttons. Your...

—Felicity Brandon

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All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.

—Mary Papas

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I’d always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo–people smiled plastic smiles, told one–upmanship stories with phony self–deprecation, then half–listened with painted–on sincerity to the one–upmanship rebuttals. Mannequins. Robots. Androids....

—Walt Shiel

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I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?

—Chayada Welljaipet

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With more time spent in their mother’s presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie’s own...

—Justin Bog

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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...

—Meg Sefton

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I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a civilization, each movement and every touch, apex upon abyss. In the luxury of...

—Sergio Troncoso

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If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.

—Alexandar Tomov

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The Grim Reaper isn’t grim at all; he’s a life-saver. He isn’t grim because he isn’t anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So...

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I like to see you in a sari, with your long hair dressed in a single plait. Don’t forget that I married a girl from India because I like my wife to be conservative and...

—K. Kanagalatha

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The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect,” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

—Stefania Mattana

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The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or three links. The short short, however, doesn’t as a rule have even that...

—Irving Howe

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I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, maturity...

—J.D. Salinger

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A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

—Mary Papas

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